Winter in Jiangnan came later than in the capital, and by the end of November, the wind was already a little stinging on the face.

As Chu Weilin said, in the evening of this day, the sky became more and more gloomy, the clouds were low, and the palm lamp was two quarters of an hour earlier than usual.

Shui Fu went to the kitchen to get the food box, and as soon as she got out of the house, she was choked by the cold wind.

Wan Yi came over from the wing, and her round face was also red from the cold: "I guess it's going to snow in the middle of the night, right?" ”

Shui Fu rubbed his hands: "No, they all say that the snow in the south is different from our north, it is dripping, not refreshing at all, it is wet and slippery when it falls on the ground, and the master is going to Mingzhou all the way, and he is only afraid of inconvenience." ”

Wan Yi bowed, glanced at the light in the house, and asked Shui Fu to go to the kitchen first, and entered the middle room by himself, and went to the charcoal fire to get rid of the cold on his body, and then went to the east room.

Chu Weilin teased Brother Lin'er to play, Wan Yi lowered her hand and said, "Grandma asked about the soup soup soup before, and the slave and maid have already inquired clearly. ”

When Chu Weilin heard this, she handed her son over to Fang's mother and listened carefully to Huanyi's reply.

Laba soup porridge is a habit developed in the capital, doing good deeds to accumulate merits, and conforming to the customs, staining some joy.

It's just that Chu Weilin spent the lunar month in Jinzhou for the first time, and she didn't know the rules here, so she asked Huanyi to inquire.

In the city of Jinzhou, the squires do not give porridge, only a few temples and nunnery with strong incense on Yanyun Mountain outside the city, will boil thick Laba porridge to distribute to the people in the city, believers believe that Laba porridge in the temple can bring health and peace to the family, and most of them go to the mountain as soon as the city gate is opened. The most sought after are naturally Lingyin Temple and Baoqing Temple, whether it is a small merchant or a wealthy squire, or an official or a bookkeeper, they will go to join in the excitement.

In the first year of his tenure, the former governor of the state, Lord Hong, there were those who set up sheds in the city to give porridge, and there were also several squires who responded to the peace, but only in that first year, and they never did it again.

Chu Weilin was very surprised: "Why don't you do it?" When we were in the capital, the officials and nobles were all vying for soup porridge, so we were afraid of falling behind. ”

"Not really." Wan Yi covered her lips and smiled, "The slave still remembers one year. Zhongyong Bofu and Anping Gongfu. I quarreled a little bit about the location of the shed. ”

Chu Weilin couldn't help laughing.

Speaking of which, the soup soup at the gate of the city, the local location is in accordance with the practice of previous years, the official eunuch and the imperial family. They all look up and don't look down on weekdays. None of them would blush on such a good day. But I don't know what happened that year, the two families actually fought, and in the end, the steward of the eldest princess's mansion couldn't stand it. Helped reconcile a few words.

Wan Yi said with a smile: "At that time, I heard that Lord Hong's wife took the lead and set up a porridge shop outside the City God Temple, and there were also a few families who responded to it, but the effect was not good. One is that many people went to Yanyun Mountain early according to the convention, and there were not many people who came, and the second is that the porridge that year did not look very good. ”

When Chu Weilin heard this, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Bad looks?" ”

Bow your head.

The soup porridge is a big pot, it is boiled the day before, and after being sent to the shed, it is heated with firewood, and when it is sent out, let alone rice, the longan peanuts in it have long been pasted, what can be a good appearance? Not only the soup kitchen at the city gate, but also the one in the temple should be the same.

That year, Lord Hong's soup porridge could make the people find fault with "bad appearance", Chu Weilin couldn't imagine how bad the appearance must be in order to have such an evaluation.

Wan Yi said in a suppressed voice: "The slave maid also listened to a few old officials and messengers, in the two years before Lord Hong took office, there was a flood in the south of the Yangtze River, and a lot of grain and grass were allocated in the imperial court. When Lord Hong took office, many of those grains were moldy, and Mrs. Hong just picked and practiced those old grains, found some that could still be eaten, boiled porridge, and added all kinds of ingredients, which were not good goods. Mrs. Hong acted like this, and even if the squires who were in favor of him had the heart to give porridge, they would not dare to put out the good things. In the second year, Mrs. Hong stopped by herself. ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Chu Weilin was stunned, but the maids in the room were dumbfounded.

Soup porridge is a good deed, it is a blessing, there is no problem with a year's worth of old grain, but taking moldy old grain to boil porridge, isn't it bad to break the original intention?

The land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and it coincides with the autumn harvest, the normal purchase of new rice is not an unbearable expense, even if it is to save money, after the new rice is put into the warehouse, last year's old rice is taken out to cook Laba porridge, it is also feasible, why stare at the rice that has been left behind in previous years?

Who would want to use that kind of Laba porridge except for the poor people and beggars who can't eat?

It's no wonder that no one took part the following year.

Chu Weilin thought for a while and said: "Let's still follow the rules of the capital, since we have built a shed to give porridge, don't think like that, from the seventh to the ninth day of the first month, three days in a row." ”

Wan complied.

Because Chang Yuyun was not there, Chu Weilin rested early, and in the middle of the night, she vaguely heard the wind outside, but she was in a daze.

When I got up at dawn, I realized that it was snow that had fallen overnight.

"It fell overnight, but it didn't accumulate." Bao Hibiscus said with a smile.

Chu Weilin pushed open the window, and it was wet outside, not so much that it had snowed overnight, but that it had rained overnight.

Thinking in his heart, in such weather, the carriage travels slowly, and Chang Yuyun is afraid that it will take an extra day or two to get to Mingzhou.

Chang Yuyun on the way was helpless to meet this weather, and instructed the handlebar to drive carefully, and there was no snow for a few days after the loss, and the road slowly got better, and on the evening of the sixth day, the group entered the Mingzhou Mansion.

When they went to the palace, they sent them to lead them inside.

When they arrived outside the study, the two masters were stopped, and only Chang Yuyun was invited in.

Chang Yuyun stopped and glanced at the people waiting outside the study, there were a few people who were extraordinary, not the people who followed Li Muyu in Jinzhou City, he knew it in his heart. When I entered the study, sure enough, the man sitting behind the desk and looking down at the file was not Li Muyu.

It was the fourth prince, and Li Muyu stood against the window with his back hand and a serious expression.

After straightening the corners of his clothes, Chang Yuyun saluted respectfully.

The fourth prince raised his head when he heard this: "You are here." ”

The voice is not heavy, the tone is gentle, and such a simple three words reveal an indescribable sense of closeness, as if the two are old friends.

The four princes, who have always shown a gentle and elegant image, have passed the age of their establishment. But when he pursed his lips and smiled. It still gives people the feeling of spring breeze.

"This time Wu Liming's case of embezzlement of ink is your credit, I will write it down and return to Beijing to honor my father." The Four Princes got straight to the point. To put it bluntly.

Chang Yuyun has to be humble. Said: "Your Highness." The minister also made a mistake, because when his father was an official in Mingzhou, the master under him had dealings with Wu Liming. That's what you can do. ”

When the fourth prince heard this, his smile deepened, he put down the file in his hand and looked at Chang Yuyun.

At a young age, he was famous for his literary brilliance in Beijing, and even the Taifu Lord praised the Chang family's junior five, the fourth prince had already heard of it, and because of the relationship between the ancestors of the Chang family, he had met a few times, and he thought he was still a bookish young man, and he saw him again today, but it added a bit of officialdom's calmness.

The fourth prince said with a smile: "Don't hide it from Lord Chang, this time I came to Jiangnan, and my father valued it very much. Jiangnan is rich, and it is really the appetite of some official eunuchs, such as Wu Liming's greed, which must be eliminated. Chang Daren's mistake actually helped me a lot. ”

Someone handed me a pillow when I was sleepy, and there was nothing more comforting than that.

As soon as the four princes arrived in Mingzhou, Li Muyu, who came to greet him, pinched Wu Liming's pigtails, from Wu Liming, a corrupt official, to Shui Si'er, a foreign goods dealer, like a grasshopper on a rope, they were all caught in a row, and the four princes were very satisfied with the progress at the moment, Li Muyu told the whole situation and did not take credit, because he felt that Chang Yuyun was a person who could be "befriended".

Therefore, the fourth prince invited Chang Yuyun to Mingzhou, and after careful consideration at this moment, he also had some plans in his heart.

Although the Chang family has a daughter-in-law who is the aunt of the little prince, the daughter-in-law is not the eldest daughter-in-law, and the queen mother hinted to Chang Lao Ancestor that the fourth prince believes that Chang Yuyun will not put Bao'er on the little prince who is still literate.

Young, intelligent, well-born, and well-capable, such a talent is in front of him, and the four princes don't want to let it go easily.

He stood up, walked to Chang Yuyun's side with his back hand, raised a hand and patted Chang Yuyun's shoulder, and said unhurriedly: "Your father used to be the peak of Wu Liming, this is the antecedent, you can get some clues by mistake, this is luck, life in the world, whether it is for officials or businessmen, preparation and luck are indispensable." What do you say? ”

Chang Yuyun's body stiffened, he could understand the meaning of the four princes.

To ascend the throne and become emperor, to sit on that throne, you must also have preparation and luck.

If you rely only on luck, even if you ascend the throne, you will have to be pulled down.

The fourth prince is ambitious, he has to fight to prepare, and he also has to gamble on luck.

Chang Yuyun lowered his eyes, among several princes, in terms of ability, the fourth prince is indeed good, but in terms of luck, he lost to the third prince who killed his father and ascended the throne in his previous life.

Although there have been some changes in this life and the previous life, after half a year, whether the third prince will succeed or not, Chang Yuyun does not dare to assert at this moment.

If it is in line with the desire of the four princes at this time......

The fourth prince is transparent, seeing that Chang Yuyun did not respond quickly, he did not force it, after all, this is a matter of making people gamble on their lives, and it is when the situation is still unclear.

If it is an ordinary official eunuch with no background, he will gamble with a horizontal heart, but a child of a family like Chang Yuyun will definitely have many concerns, after all, the entire family is not up and down He is not the only one who has the final say.

The fourth prince withdrew the hand on Chang Yuyun's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Lord Chang hurried to Mingzhou, the journey was hard, and the time was not early, so let's have dinner first." Did the master, who knew about Wu Liming's situation, come with Master Chang? Turn around and confront him with Wu Liming. ”

Chang Yuyun responded.

The fourth prince called someone to set the table in the front hall, and went back to the backyard of the mansion first, Li Muyu walked to Chang Yuyun's side, and said in a suppressed voice: "I have always felt that you are a clever person, don't let me and Your Highness down." ”

Chang Yuyun smiled lightly, he is really the "clever man" that Li Muyu said, even if he didn't easily stand on the side of the four princes, he would keep his mouth shut and not talk nonsense, not cause trouble for the four princes, and never set himself on fire.

When I came out of the study, the sky was snowing again.

The cold wind blew his face, and a thought crossed his mind.

In this month of the previous life, some changes have taken place in the palace. Empress Zhu Bintian, the imperial concubine who raised the three princes is temporarily in charge of the harem, and Concubine Liu Xian is the assistant, if the situation in this life has not changed, then in January at the latest, Jiangnan will receive the obituary of Empress Zhu Bintian.

If the imperial concubine takes care of the harem, the three princes who boldly kill their fathers will find an opportunity sooner or later, then, will the four princes, who are preparing for the battle for the throne, have full luck to pull the three princes off the horse?

There is no answer.

Compared with the three princes of the Chang family who ordered to be confiscated in his previous life, Chang Yuyun's heart is more biased towards the four princes, which is also human nature.

In the past few days in Mingzhou, in addition to Wu Liming's case, Chang Yuyun also accompanied the four princes and Li Muyu to inspect several coastal defense posts, and the morale of the soldiers in the guards made the four princes, who had always been mild-mannered, accumulate a belly of fire.

Master Qiu, who was following behind, held his forehead again and again, and said in a low voice: "In the past ten years, the coast has been peaceful, and these sailors have no chance to fight. But even so, when the prefect was in office in the past, they practiced well, although they were not brave and good at fighting, but they were by no means what they are now. From the transfer of the Chang Governor's Mansion to the present, it has not been two years since the full fight, how did Wu Liming do it, he can make the guard so smoky! ”

Li Muyu's ears were sharp, he turned his head and said: "It is not easy to train a sailor who can go to the battlefield, but once it is abandoned, let alone two years, two months is enough." ”

Master Qiu even claimed that it was.

The fourth prince stopped and said: "When it comes to military training, I am really a layman, and Master Chang is also a scholar, and he doesn't know how to dance with knives and guns." It's still you, Li Muyu, who is full of martial arts, if your mother is willing to let you out of the capital, I will definitely suggest to my father that you come to train soldiers. ”

Li Muyu touched his nose and said with a sneer: "Your Highness, what you know is not that I am unwilling to carry the burden, but that I ...... When my mother went to the Queen Mother and cried, no one could stop her. It's only been half a year since she came back to Jiangnan, and she let her go. ”

In the past, I was just reluctant to let Li Muyu go to the front line to fight hard, since the death of her eldest daughter last year, Mrs. Marquis of Anyuan seemed to have collapsed half of the sky, and she held Li Muyu more and more to protect her, if it wasn't for the Queen Mother to let Li Muyu come to Putuo Mountain to pray for blessings, Mrs. Hou would still detain Li Muyu by her side.

"Mrs. Hou is not worried about you." The Four Princes said.

Li Muyu smiled and didn't say anything more, he and the four princes have known each other for a long time, and naturally know that the four princes have a deep affection for the early death of their mother, Queen Zhou, and they can't feel the love from their mothers, and the four princes have some regrets in their hearts. (To be continued......)

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