123. Tong steps

When Lou Que came back from the palace, his expression was a little solemn.

Zheng Xian'er grinned and glued on, hanging herself around his neck: "What's wrong?" Trained? ”

"Be careful!" Lou Que hurriedly held her waist, afraid that she would squeeze her stomach.

So Zheng Xian'er was even more relieved, and simply hooked his waist cross-legged, hanging like a koala.

Lou Que smiled and sighed, his face obviously stretched a lot.

Zheng Xian'er let him hold him and put him on the bamboo couch, pulled his shirt and asked, "You won't really be trained, right?" Your dad doesn't care about you so much? Yesterday's incident is not your fault! ”

"I didn't take a lesson," Lou Que sat down next to her, "Lou Ming'an was punished with a cane and moved to a deserted garden near Miyagi to live, and all the henchmen and servants around him were replaced; The 3,000 soldiers he had secretly trained had their armor and blades confiscated and exiled to the Northwest Wasteland as slaves. ”

Zheng Xian'er rubbed her eyebrows for him, and persuaded with a smile: "The emperor is kind to Lou Ming's peace of mind, which shows that he is a loving father, and it is not a bad thing for you!" ”

Lou Que smiled reluctantly, took her hand to her lips and kissed it: "Lou Ming'an is no longer afraid, there is no need to mention him again." That Luo Xiaoying - although he was an accomplice, his father said that he deliberately approached you and me, plotted against me, fined thirty boards, and expelled him from the capital. ”

"Oh." Zheng Xian'er agreed casually, and reached out to rub his face again.

Lou Que frowned: "Aren't you sad?" ”

Zheng Xian'er smiled: "You want me to be sad?" ”

Lou Que looked at her seriously: "It was my idea to expel Luo Xiaoying from the capital. ”

"Because you're afraid I'll take a fancy to him?" Zheng Xian'er narrowed her eyes and asked.

Lou Que nodded.

"Hahaha......" Zheng Xian'er patted his thigh and laughed without any image.

Lou Que couldn't help but laugh too, in a good mood.

Zheng Xian'er laughed enough, leaned on Lou Que's shoulder and said lazily: "Today, the Jin Pavilion opened, and someone came to teach me a lesson, saying that I would lose your face and cause you trouble when I opened a store to do business!" ”

"You didn't ask anyone to beat him?" Lou Que frowned.

Zheng Xian'er grinned at him: "I have always been reluctant to fight beauties." ”

Lou Que thought about it for a while, and knew who he was talking about.

He didn't dwell on this question anymore, but bent down and hugged Zheng Xian'er to the dressing table: "Change your clothes, I'll take you out for a walk." ”

Zheng Xian'er leaned back in the chair, lazy: "But I just came back not long ago!" Just changed clothes! ”

Lou Que sighed, leaned over and hugged her shoulder: "You don't have to walk a step, I'll hug you." ”

"Good!" Zheng Xian'er raised her head and smiled, and obediently changed into clothes to go out.

Lou Que really kept his promise and carried her out of the carriage with her.

"Where?" Zheng Xian'er asked curiously.

Lou Que didn't answer her words, his expression was gloomy, and he seemed preoccupied.

Zheng Xian'er waited for a long time and didn't see him speak, and she was a little anxious: "Hey, if you don't speak, are you trying to pull me to sell me?" ”

Lou Que couldn't help laughing because of her, and most of her heart was gone.

The place where the carriage stopped was a very beautiful mansion. Above the vermilion gate, the words "Princess's Mansion" hang high.

Zheng Xian'er was stunned: "Princess's Mansion? You brought me to see Princess Qingning? ”

Lou Que still bent down to pick her up and shook his head: "Qingning is not married yet, and there is no princess's mansion." This is many years ago...... The residence of Princess Jingchun. ”

Zheng Xian'er frowned and thought about it, making sure that she had never heard of such a place.

Lou Que carried her into the vermilion gate and sighed: "Princess Jingchun has a daughter named 'Anping'. ”

"Oh-" Zheng Xian'er realized, "This is my grandmother's home!" ”

Lou Que nodded, and walked in with her all the way.

The yard was fairly clean, but there was no one in sight as far as the eye could see, so it inevitably looked a little desolate.

Lou Que saw Zheng Xian'er's puzzled look, so he explained to her: "After Princess Jingchun passed away, the people of the Lu family did not live in the princess's mansion. The courtyard was only cleaned by some of the princess's old servants, so it looked a little desolate. ”

"Who is the Lu family?" Zheng Xian'er was confused.

Lou Que was extremely patient, and explained to her with a smile: "It's your grandfather's house." The surname of the lord of Anping County is Lu. ”

"That's right." Zheng Xian'er smiled casually, as if she was listening to someone else's business.

After passing through the two courtyards and entering the small garden, Lou Que found a pavilion and put Zheng Xian'er down: "Have you noticed anything different about this courtyard?" ”

Zheng Xian'er thought about it and said with a smile: "It's too desolate!" I think this yard is fine, why didn't it live anymore? What a pity to be here for the waste! ”

"Because ......" Lou Que's expression was a little stunned, "The Lu family has resigned and returned to their hometown, whether it is the puppet emperor or the father, they are not willing to give this courtyard to others to live in." ”

Zheng Xian'er was puzzled: "Why did another resign and return to his hometown?" Is there a reason why my grandfather resigned and returned to his hometown? Is my grandfather still alive? ”

Lou Que said with a smile: "The Lu family is a true resignation. I am not allowed to hold important positions in the six ministries, so your grandfather's official position is not high, and he will not be able to do anything in his life. There are also people in the Lu family who have achieved first- and second-class members, but the Lu family was disheartened by the kings seizing the heirs and the government was abolished twenty years ago, and they have already resigned and sworn never to enter Beijing. ”

Zheng Xian'er listened to him quietly, thoughtful.

At this time, an old servant brought hot tea and snacks over, and secretly looked at Zheng Xian'er from the corner of his eye, looking excited.

Lou Que frowned and said, "You go down first." If you want to catch up, I'll talk about it later. ”

The old servant reluctantly retreated, and Lou Que explained to Zheng Xian'er: "That's the old servant who served the county lord of Anping in the past. ”

Zheng Xian'er looked up at him: "Did you bring me here to tell me a very long story?" ”

Lou Que smiled, a little reluctantly: "The story is not long, but it ...... It's a bit of a hassle. ”

Zheng Xian'er got up and walked to the stone bench, sat in the most comfortable position with her back against the railing, and raised her head: "You say, I'll listen!" ”

Lou Que smiled and sat beside her: "In addition to desolation, do you see any other characteristics of this garden?" ”

Zheng Xian'er looked around and said with a smile: "This place is said to be a garden, but there are not many flowers planted at all, but the plane trees are one by one, and they are all big leaves!" ”

"That's it." Lou Que sighed lowly.

Zheng Xian'er was a little puzzled: There are many plane trees, is it a "feature"?

But plane trees are not rare at all! She still remembers that in her early years at her mother's house, there were also many plane trees in the yard. Every spring during the flowering season, the sweet and greasy aroma can waft out a few streets, and the light purple sycamore flowers fall to the ground, which is very beautiful. When my mother was alive, I liked to pick up some sycamore flowers and wash them to boil porridge and drink, or dry them to make tea......

It should not be uncommon for people in the princess's mansion to use sycamore flowers to make food and make tea, so those sycamore flowers should be able to spread all over the ground during the flowering season, right?

Thinking about it this way, Zheng Xian'er is a little yearning.

At this time, the flowering period has passed, Zheng Xian'er looked at the bluestone path in the garden and thought for a long time, and finally smiled: "My mother should like the plane tree very much." ”

"Yes." Lou Que sighed.

Zheng Xian'er turned her face to look at him.

Lou Que grabbed one of her hands, interlocked her fingers, and sighed: "The county lord of Anping likes the plane tree very much, and he also likes to play the piano, so he named her child 'Tongjun', and Yu Qingying's pseudonym on the way to escape was also called 'Jiao Tong'." ”

"I see!" Zheng Xian'er sighed.

After a while, her eyes suddenly widened: "Your table name is 'Tong Steps', it shouldn't have anything to do with my mother, right?" ”

Lou Que pulled her to stand up and pointed to a delicate small building in the distance to show her: "It used to be the residence of the county lord of Anping, and the plane trees are planted all over the front of the building, and the tung flowers fall all over the steps during the flowering season. ”

"And then?!" Zheng Xian'er was a little confused.

Lou Que sighed: "When the old queen mother, your mother's grandmother, came once during the flowering season, she was amazed, and after returning to the palace, she wrote a poem to describe what she saw and felt. There are two sentences in the poem, "Tongjie is the road of Tianxian, why bother to go to Yaotai", which were spread to the palace by good deeds, and widely sung by literati. Later, the word 'Tong Steps' became a canon, used to refer to beauties, and also used to describe the wealth of the heavenly family. ”

Zheng Xian'er thought for a long time with her stomach that didn't have much ink, and smiled: "'Tong Steps' refers to beauty? So, when others call you 'Tong Steps', it is almost the same as calling you 'beauty'? Haha, it's so troublesome to go around so many bends, I'll just call you 'beauty' in the future! ”

Lou Que took a deep breath and steadied.

You can't beat anyone, because you are reluctant to fight, and you may not win the fight; You can't lift the table, because it's too inelegant and may not be able to lift it.

However, he was wronged!

Can this still tell a good story!

couldn't beat and scold, scolded and scolded, Lou Que had to look at Zheng Xian'er aggrievedly, and her little eyes were called a grudge.

Zheng Xian'er laughed enough before she realized that Lou Que's face was wrong, which made her feel distressed. She couldn't care less about laughing, and hurriedly hugged Lou Que's arm, shaking, shaking, shaking: "What's wrong, beauty?" Is there something uncomfortable? ”

In order to resist the urge to beat people, Lou Que picked up Zheng Xian'er and hugged her in his arms, turned around, and jumped out of the pavilion.

Zheng Xian'er only felt dizzy for a while, and when she opened her eyes again, she found that she had arrived outside the pavilion.

Zheng Xian'er, who was frightened, was immediately annoyed: "Jump...... Jumped off? Nine steps, hey! You're still holding a pregnant woman, hey! Beauty, are you crazy! ”

Lou Que didn't care, he carried her all the way and ran all the way until he stopped in front of the small building.

He put Zheng Xian'er on the steps of the small building and ordered fiercely: "Sit! ”

Zheng Xian'er is very aware of current affairs, and when she heard this, she hurriedly put her hands on her lap and sat obediently.

Lou Que almost laughed again, hurriedly tightened his face, gathered the little anger he had left, and yelled hard: "Are you really confused or pretending to be confused? The word 'Tongjie' only means 'beauty' when it is used as an allusion, and its original meaning refers to 'Anping County Lord'! ”

As a semi-literate person, Zheng Xian'er could not well grasp those strange concepts such as "original meaning", "dictionaries" and "extensions".

But she still faintly heard a hint of something wrong: "You mean, your name is related to my mother?" ”

Lou Que let out a long sigh of relief: I finally made it clear!

But Zheng Xian'er didn't actually understand.

She thought to herself, "Where the hell is this?" How could his name have anything to do with her mother? Can't always ......

Looking at Zheng Xian'er's stupid appearance of being confused for a while and frightened for a while, Lou Que finally completely accepted her fate, gave up the heuristic chat method, and chose to tell her bluntly: "My father, the emperor, has thought about your mother. ”

"Huh?!" Zheng Xian'er's mouth opened wide.

Lou Que sat down beside her, holding her hand a little nervously.

After a while, Zheng Xian'er turned her face to look at him with a confused expression: "I had a wrong thought, and then what?" Have they ever slept with each other? You shouldn't have been born to them, right? ”

Lou Que covered his face with both hands, and he had nothing to love: "You think too much......"

Zheng Xian'er breathed a sigh of relief: "Isn't it? Is that all right? You're going around such a big detour, just trying to tell me about this? ”

Lou Que shook his head: "Not only that, there are other things." ”

"Then you say." Zheng Xian'er sat up straight and pretended to be a good baby.

Lou Que had to suppress the apprehension in his heart, and told her all the old things he had heard about:

The county lord of Anping back then was the Yaotai Xianshu that countless young people in the capital dreamed of.

Even several princes are not exempt from vulgarity, and there are even rumors among the people that the reason why the princes are so keen on fighting for power is to sit in that supreme position and use the power of the Ninety-Five to keep that woman by their side.

At that time, the lord of Anping had been in power for a long time, but no one had come to the door to propose marriage, just because everyone could see that the woman had become a lottery for the princes to compete for the throne.

Whoever wins, she's theirs. Don't even think about it.

Later, the puppet emperor killed the monarch and seized the throne and stole the country, and sure enough, it didn't take long for the county lord of Anping to be brought into the palace.

No one knows how the county lord of Anping is doing in the palace. It was only a few months later that the king of Dingbei, who was retracted from his military power and was idle at home, received a blood letter from the lord of Anping asking for help, saying that he was imprisoned, beaten, and severed in the palace, and that life was better than death if he was rescued, and he was willing to serve as a slave for the rest of his life.

After receiving the blood letter, the king of Dingbei was sad and happy, and he couldn't sleep at night, and it didn't take long for him and his cronies to come up with a method of fake death and escape, and fed the lord of Anping with the fake death medicine, which was packed in a coffin and transported out.

This method is very risky, but King Dingbei has no hesitation. He was full of joy looking forward to the day when he would fly with the county lord of Anping, but he never expected that what was transported to him was an empty coffin.

The king of Dingbei thought that the plan had failed, so he secretly investigated for a long time in a panic, but unexpectedly found that the coffin of the county lord of Anping was indeed transported out of the palace, but it was replaced shortly after leaving the palace.

The king of Dingbei was furious, and finally found out the truth after several twists and turns: it turned out that the county lord of Anping had already secretly communicated with the pianist Yu Qingying, and after making a plan to fake her death, she secretly informed Yu Qingying that someone was guarding outside the palace and replaced her with an empty coffin.

After leaving the palace, the two went out of the city in disguise and disappeared from everyone's sight.

The anger after the hope was disappointed, the indignation of being deceived by a woman, and the shame of being robbed of his beloved by a lowly luthier, all kinds of emotions were entangled, and the king of Dingbei, who was already in frustration, went completely crazy.

He sent almost all of his secret guards to hunt down the county lord of Anping and Yu Qingying in the capital and nearby towns and villages, regardless of life or death.

Three months later, the secret guard found the traces of the two in a mountain village hundreds of miles away, but in the process of arresting, the two fell off a cliff hand in hand, and their lives and deaths were unknown.

When the king of Dingbei heard the news, he regretted it and personally went out of Beijing to look for more than a month under the cliff, but found nothing.

Below the cliff was a great river. To fall from such a high place, to fall into the river is death, and to fall on the shore is death.

The king of Dingbei finally gave up.

There was no more news from him. A group of people in Dingbei Wangfu had been secretly searching for the vicinity of that village and the lower reaches of the river, and after seventeen or eighteen years, there was no news.

Until the "Hundred Longevity Map" of the Lou family virgin in Sangyu County was dedicated to the palace.

A pair of embroidery is inconspicuous in the mountains of longevity ceremonies, but the sharp-eyed old palace people found that the needle and thread were a little similar to the old Anping county lord's, so they were held in front of the puppet emperor as a treasure.

The puppet emperor didn't know that the lord of Anping had escaped from the palace alive, but the king of Dingbei knew.

So there was Lou Ming'an's visit to Sangyu County, the emperor's visit to Lou's housewarming banquet, and the emperor's several times openly and secretly asked Lou Que to take Zheng Xian'er into the palace.

After Lou Que finished speaking, Zheng Xian'er breathed a long sigh of relief and sighed: "No wonder Yu Qingying would say, 'The Lou family doesn't have a good thing'!" ”

"Including me?" Lou Que asked aggrievedly.

Zheng Xian'er smiled and pinched his nose: "You are the worst!" You know everything, but you hide it from me for so long! ”

Lou Que was even more aggrieved: "These are all I just heard!" I'm afraid that you will resent my father and anger me in the future, I've been worried for several days, and I don't know how to tell you! ”

Zheng Xian'er sneered: "What is there to resent? What is there to anger against? It's just a bunch of worthless old sesame rotten grains! ”

"You're not annoyed?" Lou Que was stunned.

Zheng Xian'er pulled him to stand up, leaned on the railing and said with a smile: "Who should I hate?" Everyone's fault for that! The puppet emperor made the same mistake as your father, that is, he didn't treat my mother as a human being at all, but only as a fun object; My mother's mistake is that she shouldn't have said 'serve as a slave for life' to deceive and use your father's father, Yu Qingying's biggest mistake is that she shouldn't like my mother at all, let alone take her to elope......"

"Wait a minute!" Lou Que interrupted her, "You said your father shouldn't like your mother?" ”

Zheng Xian'er was confident: "Of course it shouldn't!" He doesn't deserve it at all! My mother is stared at by such a group of vicious wolves, and her situation is already so dangerous, what is he doing with a powerless and powerless violinist? He couldn't protect my mother at all, so he shouldn't have given my mother any hope from the beginning, and he shouldn't have made my mother think about him in her heart! If there was no him at the beginning, maybe my mother would have willingly followed the puppet emperor, so that she could at least live a good life in the palace for a few years! ”

Lou Que thought for a long time and said with a wry smile: "It's been so long, you really haven't developed a conscience!" They are deeply affectionate to death, aren't you touched at all? ”

Zheng Xian'er patted the railing and said angrily: "If he hadn't eloped with my mother, how could my mother have been exiled to Sangyu County and married that good-for-nothing carpenter - it was not Zheng Carpenter who dragged my mother off the sycamore branch, but he Yu Qingying!" How much is 'love and righteousness' worth? My mother's suffering for more than ten years is real! You might as well guess, when my mother was beaten at Zheng's house in Sangyu County, did she miss the old days? ”

Lou Que smiled bitterly, grabbed her hand and rubbed it for her: "Okay, okay, it's his mistake, let's not be angry, okay?" ”

Zheng Xian'er couldn't help laughing: "What am I angry about?" I'm just a little bit worthless for my mother! It is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, she didn't even understand this truth back then, what a stupid girl! ”

Lou Que finally pulled her to sit down again, and said with a smile: "Everyone understands the truth, but where love is, there is always a time when you 'know you can't do it'." Don't talk about others, think about yourself, haven't you also sacrificed your life for me? ”

Zheng Xian'er was frightened and hurriedly denied: "I didn't!" How could I be so stupid! ”

Lou Que looked at her with a smile.

Zheng Xian'er thought about it carefully, and finally said with no confidence: "Who hasn't had a time when they are confused? I regretted dying afterwards! ”

"Really?" Lou Que couldn't help but want to poke her.

Zheng Xian'er felt weak in her heart, and changed her rhetoric again: "That's because you are useful to me!" It is said that 'my back to the big tree is good for the shade', my 'big tree' is about to fall, of course I have to try my best to save it, after all, I still have to rely on you to live a good life! ”

Lou Que finally couldn't bear it anymore, and suddenly grabbed her shoulders: "Xian'er, is it so difficult to admit that you love me?" ”

Zheng Xian'er blurted out: "It's not difficult! But I love you precisely because you are useful to me! ”

Lou Que's heart was already happy, but he pretended to be fierce on his face: "Give you a chance to say it again!" ”

Zheng Xian'er thought for a while, pouted and said, "Okay, in fact, I love you because you are good-looking!" ”

"And!" Lou Que was not satisfied.

Zheng Xian'er rolled her eyes and smiled: "It's gone!" It's 'good-looking' during the day and 'easy to use' at night, it's already perfect! I don't think there is a better man in the world than you, so I think you! ”

It turns out that she said "useful" earlier, is that what she meant?!

Lou Que was completely defeated by her.

With such a big belly, she can still think about the night with great interest all day long, this woman is also a talent!

With such a woman at home, does he dare to marry a concubine on the left and a concubine on the right?

The vinegar jar and the vinegar jar are all trivial matters, and he first has to weigh whether he can afford it!

Lou Que stretched out his hand and pressed Zheng Xian'er into his arms, sighing and laughing.

It's easy to coax her to say that word, of course he is happy, but in addition to this happiness, the pressure is really great!

Zheng Xian'er was uncomfortable lying in Lou Que's arms, struggling to get up: "Hey, hey, let go of me!" ”

Lou Que pressed her back and sighed: "Xian'er, there is something ......"

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