Ye Zhiqiu saw his nephew go out and sat quietly at the table. Until the third watch, I heard a stone sound outside the door, and knew that it was Yinhua, so I walked out of the door.

Yinhua was dressed in a black cloak, saw Ye Zhiqiu, pointed to the sedan chair under the tree and said, "Please get on the sedan chair." ”

Ye Zhiqiu said with a smile: "You dare to prepare a sedan chair, this is in the imperial city, is the big housekeeper really blatant?" ”

Yinhua smiled and said: "The big butler said, the adult is a distinguished guest, how can he walk on foot, but the villain is brave, and he must ride with the adult." ”

"It doesn't matter."

The moonlight is like water, and the evening breeze is cool.

Ye Zhiqiu faintly felt that there was someone in front of the sedan chair, lifted the curtain and looked at it, but he couldn't see it clearly, he only saw a huge shadow on the ground, it seemed that a giant was riding on a horse, leading the way in front, and all the soldiers who met patrols along the way were all allowed to go.

The sedan chair traveled a mile or two, and then turned into a bush, and the giant shadow did not follow. When Ye Zhiqiu was thinking about it, Yinhua said in a low voice: "It's here, please move." ”

A pavilion, a thatched house, a few thin fields, a few willow branches. Such an elegant place, Dahe Ye Zhiqiu's mind, when he was greedy to look at it, someone suddenly laughed: "Lord Ye, don't come unharmed?" ”

Ye Zhiqiu followed the sound and saw that there was a person sitting in the pavilion, with a long shirt and a melon hat, it was Yang Huairen.

Yinhua silently retreated with the palanquin man, and there were only two people left in the entire courtyard.

"The chief butler seems to be fine, I don't know who the big butler's name is now, and what should he call him?"

Yang Huairen laughed and said: "What's the matter, it's just to hide people's eyes, you and I are the same." I changed my surname to Yang ten years ago, aren't you also Ye who changed your surname, but you have changed much longer than me, how many years should it be? ”

"Forty years......"

"Forty years...... Life is like a cloud of smoke, forty years in the blink of an eye......" Yang Huairen picked up the teapot, shook it, poured a cup first, poured it out for himself, and finally poured it for Ye Zhiqiu.

"Jackdaw?"

"Exactly, Lord Ye has a good memory."

"I'm a person who doesn't have any strengths, but I have a good memory, and I also have a grudge."

Yang Huairen nodded approvingly and said, "This is a good thing, if Lord Ye didn't hold a grudge, I wouldn't have dared to come to you twenty years ago, and I wouldn't have trusted the little boy to you." Now that I have met him, I am very satisfied, Lord Ye must have spent a lot of effort, and it has been really hard. Let's replace wine with tea, and I'll toast you. ”

Ye Zhiqiu took a sip gently, the jackdaw was very bitter in his mouth, and he couldn't drink more. He said with a smile: "I only count half of Xiaochen's teachings, and the other half should be Mu Yunyou's careful teachings. At that time, you told me that I must find a way to send him to be taught, and I did not dare to bother with it. Now that Mu Yunyou has passed on "Yun Ce" to Xiaochen, the big housekeeper can rest assured. ”

"It can be seen that Mu Yunyou really taught him very hard, but this kid actually passed on his pedantic skills to the little boy, I see that the little boy has too much concern in his temperament now, and when he makes drastic moves, I am afraid that he will be bound and unwilling to obey." Yang Huairen frowned as he spoke.

"He's still young, and now he's already under the nose of the big butler, if there's anything you don't understand, you can just spend some time and dial it out yourself."

"That's right, I'm not Lu Xingyuan, who can teach such a stupid son. However, time is not waiting, and there will be turmoil in this Taiye City soon, which is very dangerous. At that time, in order to be safe, the little prince could not stay here," Yang Huairen deliberately slowed down his voice and said, "But I don't want to send it back to Cangwu Country." ”

"What does the Great Butler mean?"

"I called you here this time to discuss this matter. I hope you will take him with you when you return home from this mission. ”

"That's nature."

"Before crossing the Hanjiang River, if you find a way to leave him behind, I will send someone to pick him up."

Ye Zhiqiu groaned slightly, and his eyes flashed: "Do you want to take Xiaochen back to Imuran?" ”

"It's time for him to go back, and when everything is taken care of on my side, I'll welcome him south." Yang Huairen said that he was discussing, but he was actually instructing.

Ye Zhiqiu was silent, and his mind was spinning fast.

If Su Xiaochen is in his hands, the situation can still be controlled, and if he is sent back to Imuran Country, he will no longer have a chess piece to contain Yang Huairen in his hands.

So he laughed and said: "I'm still stupid, I don't understand the big housekeeper's tricks, but I don't intend to ask too much." It's just that I have done everything you and I agreed to do. I raised Xiaochen with all my heart, sent it to Mu Yunyou to be taught, and now I have returned it to you, I don't know how the big housekeeper's promise to me will be fulfilled? ”

Yang Huairen looked at him very firmly and said with a smile: "I know that Lord Ye is a cautious person, and it is normal for people to feel a little uneasy in their hearts. But please rest assured, I will never break my promise to Lord Ye back then. Lord Ye's idea of recovering the country, I will definitely help you. ”

Seeing that he still refused to reveal it, Ye Zhiqiu thought to himself, if he didn't force him, wouldn't he be at his mercy, so he sighed faintly and said, "Do you know, why did I change my surname to Ye?" ”

"Why?"

"I am from the Chang clan in Zhangzhou, and I raised troops at the same time as the Li clan in Nawei Prefecture in the north and the south. Originally, my Chang clan already accounted for one-third of the current Cangwu country, but after the Mu Yun clan went to vote for the Li clan, my Chang clan was defeated and retreated, you know all this. ”

Yang Huairen nodded and did not speak.

"At that time, my Chang clan was called the emperor before Emperor Wanhua, but I was defeated by the Muyun clan in Wulan Mountain, and there were only more than 10,000 people left in the 160,000 army. In the next forty or fifty years, they were all invisible, and they lived peacefully, and the heart of recovering the country was really light. Unexpectedly, the Mu Yun clan just wanted to kill them all, and after finding the traces of my Chang clan, he actually led troops to come to the crusade. When the city was broken, my clan was helpless, in order to keep a little bloodline, entrusted the daughter of the clan to me, let me take her to open the city gate at night, put in the army of the Mu Yun clan, and pretended to pass through here and strayed into the city, Mu Yun saw that the two of us were still young, only seven or eight years old, and sacrificed the city for them without blood, so we spared our lives. Later, we were taken back to the imperial capital of Wanhua, and since then we have been incognito, and in order to protect her, I married her and changed our surname to Ye together. ”

Yang Huairen sighed: "I knew you were lucky to escape, but I didn't know that it was such a danger. But how smart Mu Yun was, how could he easily believe the words of your two children in the first place? ”

Ye Zhiqiu smiled bitterly: "The patriarch of the Chang clan is just a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and there is nothing to be done about it." It is also God's eyes, and the third prince of Mu Yun happened to receive an urgent report that night, saying that Emperor Qinwen suddenly poured 100,000 troops from Gyeonggi to set foot on the Yin Mu Kingdom in the starry night. Mu Yunduo didn't know the details, but he was afraid that there would be changes in the country, so he couldn't take care of the two of us, and took his two younger brothers to return to the court in a hurry. ”

"This is a hundred secrets, Mu Yunduo at that time would never have thought that he would leave the bloodline of the Chang family of you and his wife in the future." Yang Huairen nodded.

Ye Zhiqiu looked up at Mingyue and continued:

"The word 'Chang' has a 'Shang' above and a 'towel' below. The word "Shang" went to the crown and there was only one "mouth", and the word "towel" went to both sides and there was only one "ten", the upper mouth and the lower ten, and the waist was cut off and then put together, which was a "leaf" word. He Li took the crown of my Chang clan at the beginning, stripped my people of their clothes, and then beheaded the Manchus, and his body was in a different place. This hatred and hatred will never be eliminated! My inner family and I have changed our surnames to Ye, just to keep in mind the hatred of this family and the country, so as to make a blood as fast as possible in the future! ”

Ye Zhiqiu didn't speak loudly, but every word was full of hatred. He turned his head, stared at Yang Huairen with his eyes firmly and said, "So the big housekeeper now knows that I'm a person who holds a grudge." At the beginning, the great steward promised that as long as he conquered the Cangwu Kingdom, he would restore the northern border to my Chang's Songyang Kingdom, and my Songyang Kingdom was also willing to submit to Imulan as your vassal country. Now, if the chief butler can't say a plan that convinces me......" he said, smiled slightly, drank all the tea in the cup, and said: "I have been in Cangwu for so many years, and I dare not say how much I have accomplished, but if I want to fail, it is more than enough." ”

Yang Huairen was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly laughed: "I really like Lord Ye's temperament, if I can pass on one or two points to the little boy, I won't have a headache now." It's not that I deliberately deceive, it's just that the matter of restoring the country doesn't depend on my calculations, but on Lord Ye's body. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"If you want to capture Cangwu, you must first make it a civil strife, and then cut off the heirs of the Li family, a two-pronged approach, so that your Chang family can have the status of restoring the country, otherwise even if I Imulan helps you restore the country, the people are not convinced, how can it last for a long time? You say, don't you? ”

Ye Zhiqiu lowered his head and thought about it, it was indeed not bad, and asked again: "Then how to do both?" ”

"It's easy to say that the civil strife is good, Mu Yunzuo's qi is exhausted, and in a few days, his Taishi's mansion will die, you just watch from the wall. As for the heirs, it depends on your envoy's order this time, as long as you can complete the marriage, I have my own way to make them cut off the heirs. ”

Ye Zhiqiu saw that he was confident, and he didn't seem to be open-mouthed, and asked: "Then there is something I want to ask the chief housekeeper, I heard that the Ming Emperor does not agree with the marriage, I don't know how to lobby?" ”

"Hahaha, Lord Ye of the Lotus Tongue, there will also be times when you don't know how to speak?" Yang Huairen was accustomed to speaking bitterly on weekdays, and when he saw Ye Zhiqiu's gloomy face, he immediately replied: "It's funny, Lord Ye only needs to say a few words to Emperor Ming plainly, no need to say more, she will hand over her daughter to you." ”

Ye Zhiqiu was still not at ease, and asked tentatively: "It seems that the big housekeeper has already made arrangements?" ”

"What do I have in place? It's all their own making. I just passed a few words, and Zhu Yuxiao had already paved the way for you before you arrived at Taiye. ”

"Princess Silverspring? How do you know she......"

Yang Huairen rolled his eyelids and glanced at him, and snorted coldly: "Do you say that I have lived in the palace for nothing in the past few years?" ”

After speaking, Yang Huairen stood up lazily.

"It's even deeper, Lord Ye is careful on the way back, I won't hinder the adults from resting."

Seeing this, Ye Zhiqiu wanted to ask again, but he had to stand up. He walked out of the pavilion but still didn't give up, and turned around and asked, "I still have one more thing I want to ask, Xiaochen and that Zhu Zhitong...... But is it also the meaning of the big housekeeper's matchmaking? ”

Yang Huairen smiled treacherously and said: "The two of them are in love with each other, made in heaven, what do you want our two old men to mix blindly?" Lord Ye has too much to manage. After speaking, he left Ye Zhiqiu and went back to the house.