Chapter 14: The princes gather in Yangzhou
The goose-feather-like snow in the sky swirled and fell, and in a short time the sky and the earth were dyed white.
Xiao Jinxuan is dressed in a lilac purple brocade Luo skirt, with green silk and light makeup, beautiful but not delicate, elegant and refined, like a hollow valley orchid, peerless and independent.
She held her biological mother Yang with her left hand, and her brother Wen Yao with her right hand, and the three of them walked slowly towards the parked carriages outside Zhuangzi.
Before getting into the carriage, Xiao Jinxuan helped Yang flick the snow off his clothes, and said with a smile: "Mother, have you brought all your things, after going back this time, we won't come back." ”
Xiao Heng stayed in Meizhuang for half a month, and now he is going home, and Xiao Jinxuan's mother and daughter are also sorted out and leave with everyone.
Yang thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I took it all with me, but I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse when I go back this time." ”
Xiao Jinxuan didn't answer, just glanced at Xiao Wenyao, who was full of excitement on the side, it doesn't matter how he does it in the future, at least his brother will get sick and die without freezing in his life, and this is enough.
After helping Yang and her younger brother into the carriage, Xiao Jinxuan was about to get into the warm carriage, but was stopped from behind.
"Miss Xiao Si, you wait." Liu Langzhong, who was left to heal Xiao Jinfu, was out of breath and shouted as he ran.
When the arrivals arrived, Xiao Jinxuan asked suspiciously, "Do you have something to do with me?" She couldn't remember how the two had crossed paths.
Liu Langzhong smiled sincerely, and then said: "Thanks to Miss for supporting me that day, otherwise I would have to go out to look at the foreign world, I have been taking care of Miss Fifth for the past few days, and I don't have time to thank you, I heard that you are going back to the city, so I rushed here." ”
Xiao Jinxuan was dumbfounded, she was just a gesture that day, and she didn't think that the other party had always kept it in her heart.
In fact, there is a reason why she will help that hand, when the distant brother was seriously ill in the previous life, Zhuangzi was blocked by heavy snow, and she had broken out nine times in her life, but no doctor was willing to go up the mountain with her, and she was worried about being frozen to death on the road.
Only this Liu Langzhong, when she didn't hold out any hope and begged to come to the door, the other party happily agreed.
After two days of rolling and crawling on the snow road with her, she rushed to Zhuangzi covered with frost and snow to treat her brother.
Although Wen Yao's life was still not saved in the end, this upright and enthusiastic barefoot man left a deep impression on her.
So Xiao Jinxuan smiled and hurriedly said: "Liu Langzhong, you are too polite, but it's just a trivial matter, I don't deserve you to thank me so much." ”
Looking at the little girl who was following Liu Langzhong, with her head down and wearing coarse cloth clothes, Xiao Jinxuan recognized that this was Liu Langzhong's daughter.
Because Xiao Jinfu's face was seriously injured, Liu Langzhong was left in Zhuangzi for a while, and his daughter, who was the only one left in the family, was naturally taken over.
Smiled and took off a magpie fortune red golden hairpin on her head, and she stepped forward and stuffed it into the little girl's hand.
In the puzzled eyes of the two, she explained softly: "You have worked really hard for my fifth sister to treat her face, I can't thank you, this hairpin is all my heart." ”
said so in her mouth, in fact, she was to thank the other party, the righteousness of her previous life, she didn't even pay for the medicine in the end, this golden hairpin, even if she made up for the previous visit fee.
Stretching out her hand and catching a piece of white snowflake, Xiao Jinxuan smiled gently, her mood was different, her circumstances were different, and she seemed to be different when she looked at the snow.
On the slender palm, the snowflakes slowly melted, the corners of the mouth hooked a wicked smile, leaning on the guardrail above the tall building, the black-robed man muttered: "The snow in Yangzhou, I don't want to fall so big, it is said that Yangzhou in March is picturesque, and I see that Yangzhou with snow in October is also a unique scenery." ”
This person who spoke was not someone else, it was the mysterious man who hid in Xiao Jinxuan's carriage that day, avoiding the pursuit of the soldiers.
As soon as his words fell, there were two men and one woman standing beside him, a man wearing a brocade blue shirt and a green jade crown on his head, and a dignified man said: "Yes, I haven't seen such a big snow on the way from Jingshi." ”
Who knows, the black-robed man heard this, but he laughed, and said in a light tone: "No matter how big the snow is, can it still stop the filial piety of the sixth brother, and go thousands of miles to Yangzhou to find a birthday gift for Concubine Hui, the next time your father is born, should you go directly to the Western Regions, it is really beyond the reach of our brothers." ”
These words made the man in blue cough a few times in embarrassment, and said with a sneer: "Seventh brother is still so fond of joking, I really don't know that your cynical character can be lowered by your future brothers and sisters." ”
Who knows, the man in blue has just finished his joke, and the girl who was standing beside him, wearing pink peony Yunyanqun, suddenly said coquettishly: "If Brother Yu is still like this after marriage, I won't let him into the room, let him sleep in the study every day, and see if he dares to be poor." ”
After speaking, he glared at the black-robed man arrogantly, but the obsession and admiration in his eyes couldn't be hidden.
But the black-robed man pursed his lips and said, "Qian Yingluo, please come into your room, but I won't enter." Less self-inflicted and more affectionate. ”
"Zhou Xianyu!" The girl in pink, her pretty face was flushed, she shouted angrily to the other party, and stepped forward a few steps, looking unwilling to give up.
Among the four, the eldest man who had never spoken suddenly said: "Lord Yuanning, my seventh brother is just joking, can I invite you out for a while, I have something to say with the two imperial brothers." ”
These words were almost like an eviction order, but they didn't anger the girl, but she looked at the purple-robed man who spoke in fear, and then said meekly: "Okay, Your Royal Highness King Rui, then Yingluo will go down first." ”
When the door was closed, the purple-robed man in the auspicious cloud pattern satin raised his bowed head, and his deep eyes were wise and cold. The knife-like resolute face comes out with a temperament that is not angry and self-assured.
If it is said that the man called Zhou Xianyu is the beauty of all beings upside down, then this person who is called King Rui, his handsome face gives people more feelings, but he is upright and resolute, restrained and calm.
There was no one around, and King Rui spoke in a slow voice: "Sixth brother, I don't care what your purpose is for coming this time, but the matter of salt transportation was sent by my father and the emperor to investigate, if you want to obstruct it, don't blame me for not thinking about brotherhood." ”
Looking for a birthday gift for his mother, he found Yangzhou as soon as he looked for it, and this reason also prevaricated the three-year-old children, who would believe this nonsense to them, who would believe this nonsense.
The face of the sixth prince remained unchanged, but he was smiling bitterly in his heart, among the brothers, he was the most frightened by this fifth brother, not to mention the perennial ice cube face, he did things vigorously and resolutely, and he always did what he said.
He believed that if he really moved, the other party would definitely do what he said and deal with him.
Speaking of which, I have to mention the current situation in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The current emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been on the throne for forty-one years, and the country name is Ming, and Emperor Ming has eleven princes.
His eldest son, who is now the crown prince, is the child of the former queen Shen, who is humble and courteous, cares about the people, and is very loved. And the fifth prince, Zhou Xianrui, admires and supports this eldest brother very much, and is the core figure of the princelings.
But the position of the prince, from ancient times to the present, is the position that the prince must fight, and the second prince, Prince Tai, is the most powerful person to compete with the prince today. Because his biological mother is the current queen Xue.
Although this second prince is not the eldest son, he is also a son-in-law, plus Queen Xue was born in the Prime Minister's Mansion and has a tough background, so there is also a group of people who surround Prince Tai and form a princely faction, and the sixth prince Zhou Xianqi is the one who supports the second prince.
This Yangzhou salt transportation has always been a golden pot, and with the intervention of the Xue family, it has long become a small treasury of the second prince, and it has continuously funded the regime for him.
But not long ago, Yangzhou officials embezzled **, and the salt transport was filled with private pockets, but it was stabbed to the court, Emperor Ming was furious, and immediately sent Zhou Xianrui to investigate, this time the second prince couldn't sit still, and immediately sent Zhou Xianqi to follow, and the purpose of the fight was to interfere with the destruction.
But this will Zhou Xianqi is miserable in his heart, although they are all princes, but they are crowned princes, he is a prince, how can he manage the fifth brother Rui King.
And there is also a seventh brother as a helper by his side, this child Zhou Xianyu, who has been named the king since birth, and is the most loved child of Emperor Ming. has never played cards according to common sense, and he didn't dare to reprimand him with his brother's identity, otherwise after he went back, it was estimated that the other party would be fine, and he should be the one who was heavily punished by his father.
Zhou Xianyu, who was leaning on the railing, obviously didn't have any interest in the topic between the two imperial brothers, so he saw him put his hand into his sleeve and took out a white silk handkerchief with a chuckle.
This silk handkerchief is as white as new, there are no wrinkles at all, obviously it is carefully kept, in the lower right corner of this silk handkerchief, embroidered with a bunch of carefree grass, a delicate Xuanzi, is embroidered on the side of this small grass.
Daylily, daylily, alias is worry-free grass. Thinking of Xiao Jinxuan, who was holding a handkerchief and carefully bandaging herself that day, the smile on the corner of Zhou Xianyu's mouth became a little thicker.
Woman, what are you doing now, but, like me, admiring the snow.
But then, Zhou Xianyu shook his head to himself, a woman who is so ruthless to you, maybe who is going to be knifed, if only I could see you now.
Zhou Xianyu thought a little distractedly, and looked aimlessly at the street below the restaurant, because of the heavy snow, there were no people on the street, but in an instant he sat up suddenly, staring at it with surprise in his eyes, and slowly passed a carriage under the restaurant.
I saw that the curtain of the carriage was rolled up, and a slender white hand stretched out from the window, and the snowflakes fell freely.
And through the open window, Zhou Xianyu saw it clearly, the woman who had been hurting him for the past few days, thinking day and night, was sitting in the car, her face was still so gentle and calm.
As the saying goes, no coincidence is not a book, Zhou Xianyu only remembered the other party here, and then Xiao Jinxuan appeared in front of him, this fate is indeed a very delicate thing.
Imperial Zhou Xian laughed, turned over, and stood straight on the railing.
turned around and said loudly to King Rui: "Fifth brother, I still have to leave beforehand, and I will come back to you later." After saying that, he smiled evilly and jumped directly from a three-story building.
Woman, I can see you again, do you know how I can't let go of you in my heart.