Chapter 209: A Thousand Blows (1)
The summer of the seventh year of Wude was surprisingly cool. The locust trees in Luoyang have grown to the extreme, and the leaves of the trees have not been scorched by the scorching sun, but have been soaked in several hearty heavy rains, and they are becoming more and more green and tender.
Xu is because of the Luoshui, close to the south of the city of Sishun Fang, the locust tree grows particularly well, the branches and leaves are stretched, the canopy is heavy, so that the Sishun Fang compared with the next city square, more green.
Early in the morning, Ah Liu looked at her son, who was about to turn ten years old and was about to be the same height as her, sitting in the courtyard and reciting books, and counted the days with her fingers. She took a bamboo basket from the back kitchen and carried it to the backyard to pick up the young locust leaves.
Although the weather is not hot, it is the middle of summer, and the two of them have been running around for a few days, and now that they have returned home, they must have a refreshing and fresh bite to eat. On a hot day, there is nothing more suitable than a bowl of locust leaves that have been poured twice through the well.
Aliu stood on tiptoe, trying her best to reach the most tender leaves between the branches. In the past three years, she has watched Mu Qing often get stunned at Ayan or other children in the market, and every time she comes back from Chang'an, she will always lose her soul for three or five days. I also saw that Ah Lang was busy between Sishunfang and Tiance Mansion every day, sometimes returning to the back of the workshop late at night, and after returning to the house, the lights in the study were often bright all night. She will also be anxious, but she can't do it, all she can do is to take care of this house with few servants and maids, and take care of the food and drink.
Three years ago, she followed Mu Qing and Du Ruhui to flee from Chang'an in a hurry, went out of Yanping Gate, and saw Ningyuan's general He Suizhao pretending to be Du Ruhui and self-immolating. made the world think that Du Ruhui was dead. I thought that I was going back to the south to go back to the old house in Yuhang, but I didn't go far, but I went straight back to the old house in Sishunfang, the eastern capital.
After that, I heard that the prince sent people to the former residence of Jincheng Yuli to find Mu Qing, and also went to Yuhang to investigate, but to no avail, just because he was busy exterminating Liu Heimin, who was entrenched in Xiangzhou, the matter was over.
Soon after, Mu Qing changed his clothes every three or five months. Chong in the caravan of the Kang family into Chang'an. Mixed into Chang'an, the palace people from Hongyi Palace quietly took them into the palace, went to see Shiro and Yinghua, and passed Du Ruhui's letters. and told the situation of the Tiance Mansion opened by the King of Qin in Luoyang one by one.
Ah Liu carefully stroked the locust leaves at this moment. Mu Qingzheng galloped on the post road with the caravan of Kang Saburo back to the Eastern Capital. Although Shiro said sensible words when he was leaving. The stumbling eyes made her sad, but in the end she had completed an important matter, and it seemed that the day of picking up Shiro was one step closer. This made her feel a lot more relieved.
Now the prince and the king of Qin are fighting, the court is clearly and secretly to the king of Qin's less than half, Rao is so, the prince is still afraid of the army in the hands of the king of Qin, but also often suffer from the Hongyi Palace side of the frightened, every time I feel that the king of Qin will have a change, but it is calm, white tension. In the past three years, he has probably had enough, so he simply expanded the number of dead soldiers in Bishamen to 2,000 without authorization, acting as guards in the East Palace, and blatantly stationed in Changlin Gate, calling himself Changlin Soldier.
Because he didn't see the control, he had to make inches, Princess Pingyang Zhao had passed away, and Yinghua had already lost his robe, so he unscrupulously forcibly recruited three hundred elites from the Xiaocai camp and scattered into the market outside the east wall of the East Palace for emergency use. When the saint learned about it, he only found a scapegoat and wandered thousands of miles, so he settled the matter.
At this moment, he was unconsciously calculated: Yang Wengan, the commander of the prince's Changlin soldiers, was dizzy and suffered a few pieces of armor, listened to a few words of instigation, and clamored to make trouble for the prince, asking the prince to ascend the throne, and even made a lot of trouble in Chang'an, until it reached the ears of the saint who was spending the summer in the Renzhi Palace, which provoked the wrath of the heavens and brought the prince to the saint in front of the saint. According to the secret report of the inner supervisor placed in front of the emperor, the prince confessed his guilt in the palace of Renzhi, but he received a heartwarming blow from the saint and almost fainted, and was imprisoned in the livestock house, where he was fed with wheat straw and suffered for several days before he was released.
Li Jiancheng woke up from the hardship, knowing that he had been plotted by others, only to know that this matter must be the handiwork of the Qin King Shogunate, and the means were roundabout, and it looked very familiar, but he couldn't find out who did it. As soon as he got out of trouble and returned to Chang'an, he vowed to ask Hongyi Palace for this section.
As everyone knows, the person who designed to frame him was not in Chang'an, and when he was so angry that he almost broke his teeth, that person had already traveled north, only with ten guards, and went deep into the Turkic North Court.
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The half-lukewarm water submerged Mu Qing's whole body, and the fatigue on horseback that had been wild all day was slowly dissipating. Aliu reached into the water, kneading her arm that was sore and stiff from holding the reins a few times, and asked about Shiro and Yinghua.
"Yinghua taught Shiro very well, with Shiro by her side, she was quite comfortable, occasionally a little unhappy, the left is just caused by the competition between those women, Yinghua didn't care about this, she didn't care, but it was okay." Mu Qing leaned back on the edge of the bathtub and said babblingly.
Ah Liu stopped his hand and became serious, "Every time, it is always said that King Qin treats Yinghua very well, and he is almost exclusively favored...... Why don't you see her give birth? Now at the age of twenty-four or five, this is not to be delayed. ”
Mu Qing had never thought about this in detail, and when Ah Liu mentioned it, he couldn't help but be stunned. Sure enough, before Yinghua entered the palace, the eldest grandson gave birth to Chengqian, Qingque and Yingge one after another, and the concubines also came out. Mu Qing couldn't help but float in his mind the gorgeous face of the eldest grandson like a peony blooming to its fullest glory, although it was carefully depicted without a trace of omission, the loneliness in his eyes was vaguely visible.
Seeing that she was silent, Ah Liu pursed her lips, "Could it be that she still wants to go to the battlefield with all her heart?" ”
As he was talking, there was a movement outside the bathhouse, like the neighing of horses, Ah Liu listened for a while, and turned around with a smile to get the plain skirt that Mu Qing usually wore, "Xu is Ah Lang is back." You two will step on your front and back feet, and I'll see if the hot soup prepared in the kitchen is enough for Ah Lang to wash the dust. ”
Mu Qing took a dry cloth, rubbed her wet hair half-dry little by little, put on a water-colored skirt, and tied up the silk silk on her chest. Fang just put on his half-dried hair, walked out of the bath room, paced on the eaves corridor that extended next to the water, and walked slowly for fear of sweating again.
Du Ruhui was obviously freshly washed, sitting on the half-couch facing her on the side of the water, and the big pond that occupied the entire inner courtyard was gone, and the magnificent scene of the lotus pond with swaying blue shadows was gone, only the light water surface remained, and occasionally a few deciduous aquatic plants floated, and even the water birds did not want to stay longer. It only skimmed the surface of the water as fast as it could. I don't know where to fly.
Mu Qing relaxed his steps, and while walking, he looked at the figure that had not been seen for half a moon on the first half of the couch, just looking at this figure, he definitely couldn't see the appearance of being running around for half a month. Until recently. When you can see your face clearly. Only then can I see a little tiredness on his solemn and calm face.
"You're quick to wash." Mu Qing stepped forward with a smile, reached out and touched his slightly cool neck, frowning. "Why did you flush the cold water again, although it is not hot in the summer, after all, it is not hot, and the age is not as good as before......"
Du Ruhui smiled and took her hand, and took her to sit beside her, "Tell me how Shiro looks, but you're enlightened?" What books do you learn? What are the body bones? Whenever Mu Qing returned from Chang'an, no matter how important the documents and teachings were, and no matter what the situation would be in Chang'an, the two of them would never mention those things in the first sentence, but had a tacit understanding to talk about the children who stayed in Chang'an.
"It's that tall, sturdy and smart." Mu Qing raised his arm and compared it on his chest, "Yinghua is well-educated, and he practiced his fists and feet every day, and he gave me a performance when he went, although his strength is small, his posture is good." Yinghua said that last month, King Qin took over the Xiuwen Pavilion and gave him the position of Yu Gong Bachelor to take charge ......of the Xiuwen Pavilion.
"It's just that Agu Ahe and those family members study in the same room every day, and they are tainted with a lot of squirming habits, and they are obsessed with camping, forming gangs, and often traveling together and swaggering through the market?" Du Ruhui followed her words and said it in one go, as if she had seen it with her own eyes.
Mu Qing nodded helplessly, then raised his head and wondered, "How do you know?" Could it be that you've seen them? ”
"If you think so, why bother to see it with your own eyes." Du Ruhui let out a long sigh, with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, "The atmosphere of the imperial capital has always been like this, and the family of which dynasty is not like this." The two of them have been raised in Duling since they were children, and when they came back, I did not fulfill my father's responsibilities and never had time to discipline them. Now in that place, how can Yinghua control them, just don't ask for anything wrong, don't provoke any right and wrong, and the one who keeps to himself is already Da'an, and if he puts it in his heart and habits, these people have to be taught slowly in the future. It was Shiro who taught me that I couldn't let go, he was still young, and he learned everything very quickly. ”
Mu Qing suddenly stroked his palms and smiled, his eyes brightened, "You don't have to worry about this." Coincidentally, one day after Duke Yu took office, when he arrived at Hongyi Palace, he met Yinghua with Shiro in the outer hall, and Duke Yu had good eyesight, and he recognized Shiro at a glance whose child he was. The original said that he would be enlightened after the year, just because Yu Gong loved him very much, even if he wanted to accept Shiro's personal teaching, it happened that the King of Qin was also there, and only taught Shiro to perform the apprenticeship ceremony, and the matter was done. ”
Du Ruhui was overjoyed, if he was a person next to him, he was afraid that he would not be able to rest assured, but he never expected that Yu Shinan would personally teach Shilang such a child. Yu Shinan is loyal and noble, the poetry of words, and the essence of scholars, there are few people in the world who can be more than him.
"That's wonderful, I still remember that when I joined the teacher, I was guided by Yu Gong. Moreover, he had studied under your Gu ancestor, and he was in the same vein as what you and I had learned and understood, so I don't think Shiro would deviate too much in the future. Fortunately, fortunately. At this moment, it seems to be the happiest moment for Du Ruhui in three years, and there is some dancing between words.
Mu Qing covered her mouth and chuckled at him for a while, after he mentioned this, a dull afternoon appeared in her mind for no reason, in the mottled bamboo shadows, she was puzzled and curious to hear Yu Shinan mention to her father that the young and vigorous, high-spirited, unwilling to be in the same breath as the new Fuyang Lieutenant, twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye, why are the initial details so clear and vivid now? She rested her head against his chest and inhaled deeply the warm breath that had taught her to indulge. (To be continued.) )
ps: It's been a long time since I've been verbose, Shubunkan is the famous Hongwenkan that often appears in literature, film and television works. Originally called Xiuwen Hall, Li Shimin became the prince and changed its name to Hongwen Hall, and then changed its name to Zhaowen Hall after Wu Zhou.
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