Chapter Thirty-Eight: Returning to Beijing (Asking for Another Collection)
It didn't take much time for them to get back to where they were when they walked down the cliff.
However, it took some time to return to Kyoto from the north.
The local officials welcomed Gu Zhiyu when they saw it first, but as soon as they saw the prince appear, they panicked and wanted to dodge.
It is also even more difficult to find horses at this station.
"Master, I asked for it from them, but I didn't give it. said that it had been set a long time ago. ”
Li Yu said, her eyes couldn't help but glance at the post horse seller.
This Gu Zhiyu said: "They want these nearly ten horses?" ”
Li Yu nodded and glanced at Meng Fan at the end.
Meng Fan looked at the mountain bag with withered grass and didn't say a word.
Holding the steamed buns that Gu Zhikai grabbed with others a few days ago, he ate happily.
"Liyu, why don't we grab it?" Gu Zhikai was ready to repeat his old tricks, but he hadn't finished speaking.
Turning around, Meng Fan directly snatched the horseman's whistle, and after glancing at it with disgust, he snatched the horsewhip and got on the horse.
As soon as the whistle sounded, the dozen or so horses followed.
Meng Fan said in the direction of his own people: "Come up!" ”
Gu Zhikai and the others were dumbfounded, Meng Fan, who said a few days ago that he wouldn't grab a needle and thread, directly grabbed the horse today?
Xiao Jiu was the first to fly over, and the people behind also rushed to go.
The horse's hooves sounded, and the dust fell.
The robbed horse-traders panicked.
"My horse!" The voice is loud and very sad.
At this time, I heard Meng Fan say: "When Meng Fan returns to Beijing, he will definitely send gold and silver, and the store can't help it." ”
The horse dealer still couldn't stop wailing, as if he didn't believe that Meng Fan, who was famous all over the world for his illness in Kyoto, could come alive and rob his horse today.
Therefore, he secretly spat at the mouth and said: "You are the prime minister, and I am still the prince." ”
And over there, Meng Fan and a few people drove their horses and ran for a long time.
Meng Fan stopped suddenly.
"I need to get ahead of the curve, and you'll catch up later."
"Taifu!"
"Follow Gu Zhiyu, I'll go first."
Because Meng Fan himself is pretending to be sick, it is not the same thing to be sick for so many days.
And now that the war is over, the scenery in Kyoto must have changed a long time ago.
She thought about hurrying on her horse.
On the way from the north to Kyoto, she saw notices posted everywhere, and when she looked closely, she was looking for a famous doctor for herself.
And the signature made her very strange.
"When does this royal still matter my life and death?" She read silently.
I couldn't help but clench the reins in my hand, and I went forward even more non-stop.
As soon as I arrived at the city gate, I saw that everyone at the city gate was extremely strictly scrutinized.
She felt that she could not go in at this time, so she found a place and stayed.
In just a few days, there have been earth-shaking changes.
When Meng Fan was chatting with a few fellow villagers, he learned that after the army returned, the emperor only crowned his own prince Gu Zhiyu.
but ignored the Meng family army.
This Meng mother, when Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of the dynasty, was the first to hold grievances for the Meng family's army.
After that, Gu Zhiyan tried to replace the crown prince, and Meng Mu looked for the queen of the dynasty and stopped her.
Some people say that Meng Fan is weak and it is not easy to be the prime minister again.
As she listened, she realized that the situation in Dayuan was so tense.
The prince was assassinated, and the matter of the traitors in the army has not yet been resolved, but they first fell in love with the position of the prince.
Meng Fan was angry and looked at the person guarding the city.
I found a portrait of one of the sluggish-looking men.
- Portrait of Gu Zhikai!
It seems that this Gu Zhiyan really wants to get rid of Gu Zhikai so that he can ascend to the position that he has in mind.
"What a Gu Zhiyan." She said, glancing at the sky.
Seeing that the moon was approaching, she put on a hat, lowered her head, and prepared to sneak in with her face blackened.
This first level was a happy one, and those people took a look at it and let Meng Fan go.
And when she walked in, she found that the curfew bell, which had been removed a long time ago, was hanging high in the distance.
A few vendors next to him muttered, "I don't know when the prime minister will be fine, if it goes on like this, it will be really difficult for us to do this business." ”
These hawkers were supposed to rise after the curfew was removed.
Since the curfew began, they have had a hard time, and they can't complain.
It was at this time that people remembered Meng Fan, the one who lifted the curfew.
And Meng Fan knew that this move was nothing more than a sue to those people that the prime minister was no longer good, and the things she was promoting were no longer good.
Thinking about it, she walked to the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
This tall red lantern hangs with two blessings written on it.
The lamp, which was originally removed after Chinese New Year's Eve, looked quite timely at this time.
There were two knocks on the door.
The old butler ran in three steps and two steps.
When I opened the door, I first glanced at it, and saw that it was Meng Fan.
smiled and said, "Madam, I'm back." ”
As soon as she finished saying this, Meng Mu hurried out.
She seems to have aged a lot these days.
A pair of eyes are even deeper, and the eyes are full of bloodshots.
Meng Mu was wearing the court clothes she had put down for a long time, and the danfeng depicted in the gold silk had faded in color, and some restless silk threads were also jumping in the light.
"Mother!"
When Meng Fan left, she didn't tell her mother, she knew that Meng's mother would not let her go.
Looking at her mother, she suddenly felt very sorry for her.
Meng Mu's eyes were unusually resolute, and her hand slapped Meng Fan's face lightly twice, and said secretly: "I want to give you two loud slaps, and I went to the battlefield like this without saying a word, do you know how sad you are." ”
Meng Fan was silent.
Meng Mu dragged her into the house, and she never spoke again.
As soon as I entered the lobby door, the smell of food wafted in.
It was full of Meng Fan's favorite dishes, and they looked so appetizing.
Meng Fan couldn't help but look at his mother and said, "This? ”
"Master doesn't know, Madame is worried that you won't be able to eat a hot meal when you come back suddenly, so I'm preparing it every day, so you can eat it quickly."
Meng Mu still didn't speak, but looked at the portrait that had been hanging in the hall with a little meaning.
said to Meng Fan: "I'm worried that someone will say that I'm not good to you. ”
Meng Fan was stunned, because Meng's mother's words were extraordinarily raw.
After the meal, Meng's mother went back to the house.
Although Meng Fan was tired, she couldn't sleep, and she was wandering around the yard in her clothes.
I remember when I was a child, Feng Lou always took her to see the wildflowers on the lonely mountain behind her, and then, sued her.
He wanted to pick up some of the best little princes in the palace to play with him.
Later, the little prince died, and he never stayed with Meng Fan to come here.
At this time, somehow, Meng Fan came here like this.
A few withered flowers brushed by his hand seemed to be still talking.
She just stood there quietly, looking at the vast starry sky.
But I felt very tired.
I used to be very tired when I was forced by my uncle to learn all kinds of things, but I was accompanied by Liyu and Fenglou.
Later, when I grew up, I was very tired of the court, but I couldn't talk to Li Yu and Fenglou.
Now he has a life with his mother.
People are alive, standing too high, and they are really lonely......