Chapter 65: The Old Man Comes

"Rustling ......"

The drizzle is covered with leaves, and it is swaying in an instant. The summer in Jiangcheng is not much hotter than Yecheng, which is surrounded by the Jinhe River.

At this time in Jiangcheng in previous years, Gongyi Scarlet and Mrs. Yan were sent to Qingliangtai to escape the summer, and earlier, the former emperor, who was only the crown prince at the time, and Mrs. Yun, who was the crown princess, accompanied them.

Qingliangtai is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and when Gongyi lived there, his favorite thing every day was to read in that pavilion, do homework, eat snacks made by Mrs. Yan and his imperial sister-in-law, listen to his imperial brother stroked the qin, and even have lunch in the pavilion and rest at noon in the pavilion.

It's a pity that he didn't live long in such a comfortable life.

His father died, the sick and weak imperial brother ascended the throne, Liang Guo took the opportunity to make trouble, as a last resort, he pretended to be a princess and was sent to Xuanguo as a hostage, and Linchuan County, where Qingliangtai is located, was also surrendered to Xuanguo.

Gongyi thought about it, and before he knew it, the drizzle had stopped, and outside his bedroom, the black cicadas on the trees that chirped all day long began to make noise every day.

The heat was unbearable, the noise in the ears became more and more intense, and the official documents played by the ministers on the case in front of them were also seen only more than they could see. The official ceremony replied to the official document, and the more irritable he became.

"These old stubborn people asked about the big things in the court, and they couldn't make a sound about Liang's good policies for Xuan. I set up Sister Yun as the queen, and Xiao Yun'er as the princess, but they are all tirades! ”

Extremely irritable, Gongyi Fei simply loosened the crown belt, dressed properly, and walked in the dormitory with his hands behind his back, one back and forth faster than the other.

There is no doubt that his public ceremony is indeed unprecedented and unprecedented, and he has done a great thing that shocked the entire Han Kingdom.

Throughout the ages, Han Jun married his deceased brother and wife according to the old custom, but he set up a princess as the successor daughter, and he was the first one to be a princess!

The stubborn old ministers were as noisy as the cicadas on the trees outside the window. Before and after, morning and dusk, I don't know how many concerts I played.

The content is impassioned, but in the eyes of Gongyifei, it is nothing more than the same aggressiveness.

The Han soldiers were weak, and they didn't want to think about good ideas, but they all hit Yun'er, who was only a few years old. This scene made Gongyi Fei feel particularly piercing.

He is the king of a country, can't he be able to govern the country well, but instead have to sacrifice his daughter's family in exchange for the opportunity to survive?!

Gongyi is disdainful.

On the one hand, there is the danger of being caught in the two kingdoms of Xuanliang, on the other hand, there is the only blood left by his brother who loves him very much, and on the other hand, there is the chaos of Han's internal affairs.

Gongyifei's heart became more and more irritable. Depressed to the extreme, he simply threw the tea cup in his hand and smashed it on the ground.

The sudden shock, panicked that not many palace people inside and outside the dormitory all knelt down tremblingly, and Long Yan was furious, this is not a joke.

"Alas...... Come on, all of you get up......" Gongyi sighed, waved his hand, and hurried out of the dormitory with his hands in his hands.

At dusk on this day, the prince in a purple robe walked out of the Han Palace, accompanied by several guards.

Yes, he left a letter to the stubborn leader, the Han Xiang. In the letter, he left a message that he wanted to travel for a few days, and the government and politics here were entrusted to him.

"Aunt Yan, it's been a long time, I don't know this time, can you still recognize 'Ah Fei'?"

Starting from Jiangcheng to Linchuan, it doesn't take a few days. It's just that Linchuan is at the border, and people come and go at various passes, and the inventory is very strict.

He and a group of guards used the excuse that they came to Linchuan to take a look, looking for the family who had been married to him since childhood, so they finally got confused.

Gongyi Fei entered the country from the pass with a few guards, and unconsciously shook his fan and smiled lightly.

To be reasonable, he didn't tell a lie. Nominally, when he was still the "eldest princess of the Han Kingdom", he did have a marriage contract with King Kang, who had just come to Linchuan.

Three years, almost three years of not seeing, Xuanyuan Qi has grown into a handsome teenager now, I don't know how Aunt Yan is, her leg disease has improved over the years?

The moment Gongyi stepped into Linchuan, he couldn't help but have a lot of thoughts in his mind. The heart in the chest beat more violently.

"Sugar cake! Sugar cake! Cool and sweet sugar cake! ”

With the shouting, with the wind came a familiar sweet smell mixed with glutinous incense, and the steps under Gongyi's feet naturally walked towards the dim sum stall.

"Childe, this ......" Although for the sake of safety, the chief of the guard next to Gongyi Fei dissuaded him as soon as he saw Gongyi Fei buy a piece of cake, but Gongyi Fei waved his hand to him and stuffed a large piece of cake directly into his mouth.

It's soft and glutinous, sweet and silky, but Gongyi ate a few bites, and always felt like something was missing, a little worse than what Mrs. Yan made for him.

Looking at the white sugar cake that was half bitten off by him in his hand, Gongyi patted his head and smiled. Yes, Mrs. Yan always sprinkled some freshly dried osmanthus on the sugar cake she made for him, and if not, she would pour a layer of sugar osmanthus she made herself instead.

The sweetness accompanied by the fragrance of osmanthus can be soaked from the tip of his tongue to his bones.

Gongyi is fond of sweetness, and when others were young, if it weren't for Mrs. Yan taking care of him from time to time, he was afraid that he would be able to drink a jar of sugar osmanthus made by Mrs. Yan in one go.

"Ha ......" unconsciously, Gongyifei and a few disguised guards walked away, Gongyifei walked while eating the remaining half of the cake in his hand, but it tasted the same as chewing wax.

"Do you want to use some more?" The head of the guard asked, and he thought that Gongyifei might be tired from walking and a little hungry in his stomach.

"No, let's find a place to stay......

Even if he is addicted to sweets, Gongyi Fei has already passed the age of putting three or four spoonfuls of sugar in his mouth porridge water, not to mention, he ate too much just now, but a piece of cake the size of a palm is now in his stomach.

Not long after, Gongyi Fei and his entourage came to live in the inn near the Linchuan Post House, here, only one street away from King Kang's Mansion, and it was only more than half an hour's walk from the Qingliangtai of the year.

In the "Tianzihao" guest room on the second floor of the inn, he slowly drank a cup of tea, and Gongyi pushed the window and looked at it, not at the distant mountains with emerald mountains, but at the nearby streets.

There are not many people on the street, and there are no more than a few shop stalls, and some of them even close just after noon.

It's very deserted.

"Alas......" Gongyi, who saw these in his eyes, sighed softly again.

In his childhood memory, although Linchuan County was not the richest county in the Han Kingdom, it was also extremely lively at that time. If you find an inn to settle down at will, you will not go anywhere else, and all kinds of scattered shops and street stalls are enough for people to wander around for a day.

It is located at the intersection of the four potentials, and the business houses are flourishing, so as early as when Gongyi's father was still alive, he simply eliminated the curfew in Linchuan.

The night market in Linchuan is far hotter than Linchuan in the daytime. Gongyi Fei still remembers that when he first arrived in the capital of Xuanguo, he was just in time for the Lantern Festival.

Ten miles of lights, plum lost its bright color. The east wind is fragrant, carved and brimming.

The grand scene of the Lantern Festival night in Yedu is indeed a bliss that is rarely seen in the world.

But in his heart, compared with his childhood Linchuan Ancient County, it can't be compared.

Once the sea was difficult to water, except for Wushan, it is not a cloud.

In his heart, there is a corner of Linchuan County that he can never go back to.

The people who loved him and loved him back then have left him one after another, and the few remaining people are not around now.

Since the death of his father, Linchuan County has had large and small wars, a few years down, the first to stop, is the original bustling night market, and later, and then stopped the business exchanges of several countries, to the end, day by day only to see the funeral ceremony, yellow paper flying, the whole Linchuan County has almost become a ghost town.

When the war was easily stopped, he was divided to Xuanguo by his newly enthroned imperial brother. Since then, the two sides have been separated, and the old friends have been scattered, and the distance between them is a stone's throw away, but because of a pass, it has become the end of the world.

This situation did not improve until Xuanyuan succeeded to the throne and issued the will to open the pass.

Gongyi looked at the desolate and deserted Linchuan street scene in front of her, and couldn't help but think about Qingliangtai again.

Ten years have passed, but the good times are still there?

couldn't bear the anticipation in his heart, and as soon as the hottest hour of noon passed, Gongyi Fei couldn't wait to take a small sedan chair to the outside of the cool platform, accompanied by several guards.

For ten years, before coming, Gongyi Fei had prepared for the worst in his heart, and he thought that the only thing left in Qingliangtai was ruins. However, surprisingly, even though the weeds are overgrown and the rats and ants are hiding, the cool terrace still mostly maintains a dilapidated outline.

"Squeak...... Syllable! Gongyi carefully pushed open a side door of the cool platform. But the door pivot that had already decayed could not withstand any slightly greater external force, Gongyi Fei pushed it lightly, and the side door that opened half fell to the ground, shattered into several pieces, and among the broken wood, crawled out of the Sen Sen termites, and the scalp was numb to the direct teaching.

Gongyi glanced down, and walked directly into the cool platform. Stepping over knee-high clumps of weeds, he and a few guards came to a courtyard.

Ignoring the unkempt weeds on the periphery and looking at the scenery in the yard, it should be a very wide place, definitely not as narrow as it is now.

"Oh yes, this should be the Champs......"

After watching it for a long time, Gongyi slowly reconciled everything in front of him with his childhood memories, this is where he once lived.

Sure enough, after Gongyi Fei and a few guards stepped over a few more weeds, they came to a dilapidated waterfront pavilion, the top of the pavilion had been rotted, and only the stone pillars at the four corners and a stone case in the pavilion remained.

Gongyi Scarlet slowly approached the unrecognizable square pavilion, and with his memory, he lowered his head slightly and looked at one of the stone pillars. As far as his eye could see, he also raised a hand to caress the irregular nicks.

"Ah Fei has grown taller again, but he is not yet a brother, hahaha......"

"Brother Huang, don't touch my head, I won't grow tall!"

The laughter of the past, as if it happened yesterday, Gongyi looked at the nick on his waist after thanking him, and then turned his attention to the stone case in the pavilion.

Without the cover of the pavilion roof, under the accumulated wind and rain, the vertical and horizontal warp and weft on the stone case, which was originally used as a chessboard, have almost been worn out to the point that there is no trace left.

Since then, the place where he can see the former Qingliangtai will only be in a dream, but unfortunately, he has not dreamed for a long time.

"Let's go......"

Here, Gongyifei had just sat in the sedan chair, and the chief of the guard on the side noticed that other people were coming here.

He was immediately alarmed, and pressed his hand on the saber at his waist. In his opinion, this place has been deserted for a long time, except for the old public ceremony, I am afraid that only the bad people will come.

"Slow, let's go slowly, it's ......"

When the visitor approached, Gongyi saw through the corner of the curtain a carriage, and in the carriage, a young man in a dark blue robe and a woman in a yellow shirt with inconvenient legs and feet came down.

"Aunt Yan......"

With just one glance, Gongyi Fei recognized the person, and he quickly covered his mouth, for fear that he would scream.

"It's ...... Could it be ......"

Mrs. Yan, who was supported by Liu Shi, although she didn't see anyone, she probably guessed who was sitting in the small sedan chair.

tacitly, Mrs. Yan and Liu Shi did not recognize the public ceremony.

The sedan chair lifted up again and walked very slowly, as if deliberately trying to make more stops. Just when the sedan chair passed by Mrs. Yan's side, Gongyi Fei wanted to lift the curtain to take a look, but he still put down his hand.

"The scenery here is very good, don't miss ......"

"What Childe said is very true, meet in Pingshui, take care of ......"

Gongyi left in a small sedan chair, what he didn't know was that behind him, Mrs. Yan, who was holding Liu Shi, was watching him leave safely.

Perhaps, one day, it is not the mother and son, but the old people who are better than the mother and son, will have to reunite one day.