Chapter 33: Night Visits
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Lou Wen's palm was as fat as a alien reptile, fleshy, but as powerful as a hunting iron clip, reaching over and grabbing his son's wrist, before he could use much force, beads of sweat were already oozing from the head of the building.
"Liu Youzhong is right, as soon as you open your mouth, it will be chaotic, so you'd better keep your mouth shut and stop talking nonsense, and hinting won't work."
Lou Ji endured the pain and said: "King Guangling will also return to Beijing, and the prince Zhang Shiduan will leave for Jiangdong tomorrow to welcome his father." ”
Lou Wen slowly relaxed his palms and said lightly: "I have heard that Your Majesty has recruited the six important ministers of Lou, Lan, Shen, Xi, Cao, and Huangfu, as well as the four kings of Guangling, Jibei, Xiangdong, and CD back to the capital, and the envoys sent are all the sons and daughters of all families. ”
"Your Majesty must have a plan, and the child is dedicated to the sake of the Lou family......"
Lou Wen put his hand on it again, and sneered: "For your own sake, right?" You are imprisoned, there is no future, I wish the world was in chaos, you are so troubled to fish. ”
Lou Ji's voice trembled a little in pain, "If there is no Lou family, why should the child touch the fish?" Fathers and brothers are like mountains, and when the mountain falls, there is no support, and children understand this simple truth. ”
Lou Wen laughed, and finally let go of his palm, leaving a circle of red marks on his son's wrist, "It's not time for you to speak." ”
"Father's ......"
"There are many things you don't know, the six ministers and four kings followed the first emperor to pacify the five kingdoms and dominate the world, but they can't fight a little emperor who pretends to be smart?" In Lou Wen's eyes, when today's son will always be a child, "You still have to watch honestly, when you need to speak, I will tell you." ”
"Yes, father, the child is ignorant, and it is up to the father to decide." Lou Ji hesitated for a moment, and decided not to tell the truth about the assassination, "The prince of Guangling will hold a banquet tonight and invite the children to ......"
"Go, let Qiao Zhisu send you out of the imperial city. Now is the time when the Lou family needs to make friends the most. ”
"What else does my father command?"
Lou Wen thought for a while and said solemnly: "It's not the time." ”
"Remember, child."
"You are too young and too inexperienced to understand how complicated the court is, and you can't say anything about today's enemies or tomorrow's friends. You should have done things with me earlier, and the more you watched, the more careful you would be. ”
"Yes, children should be careful."
"Well, go ahead."
Lou Ji went out, looked for Qiao Zhisu, and asked him to send him out of the imperial city.
Qiao Zhisu came back soon, and when he saw that the general was in a daze, he stepped forward and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the general." ”
"Hey, I'm in a hurry, why should I be happy?"
"Congratulations to the general for having an outstanding son."
"Seventeen? But if you're bold and can just say a few words, what's outstanding? ”
"The general is too modest, if the seventeenth prince is not outstanding, how can he get the favor of His Majesty, and in a few days, he will go straight from cloth clothes to the first garden? I don't know how many noble sons I envy. ”
"Haha, it's really rare to hear you say that, my son is a little special, he ...... No, that's not what you mean. ”
Qiao Zhisu smiled and said nothing, refusing to directly comment on the relationship between father and son.
Lou Wen's expression gradually became cold, and he muttered, "Why does Your Majesty only take a fancy to this son? If you want to spread the word, it's enough to have a third child......"
"Maybe Your Majesty really appreciates the talent of the Seventeenth Prince."
"Hey, just an article signed by someone else? What's more, he is a confined body, even if he is talented, what can he do? Lou Wen glanced at Qiao Zhisu, "I see." ”
Qiao Zhisu gave his hand and said goodbye, he was just a staff member, remind when he should be reminded, and shut up when he should shut up.
Lou Wen sat alone in the empty conference hall, wrapped silently by the night, and when he came to his senses, there was only a very faint light left, he couldn't help but shudder, and whispered: "Could it be that her ghost hasn't rested yet, and she wants to toss again?" ”
When the general woke up in shock, Lou Ji had already come to the Guiyuan, and was taken to the living room by the servant to give him a farewell gift prepared by Qiao Zhisu.
Zhang Shiduan was very happy, there were not many guests coming tonight, counting him there were only nine people, all of them were best friends, and they could talk about everything.
After the three rounds, Zhang Shi stood up and raised his glass, and said loudly: "I have made a request to the emperor, and when I come back from Jiangdong, I will participate in the western expedition to quell the chaos." ”
Everyone applauded, and some people even shouted out "prison army" directly, Zhang Shiduan hurriedly added: "I can't be a prison army, I can be an entourage for the prison army, even if it is an ordinary soldier." When the husband is alive, he should always go on the battlefield. ”
Everyone applauded again, and said that they also wanted to join the army, Zhang Shiduan bypassed the wine case and came to the table at the base of the building, "The general is the first general of this dynasty, I want to learn more from him in the future, I have no chance to see the general now, first salute the prince of Lou for a cup, please speak to the general on my behalf." ”
Lou Ji got up, "I can get the son of the world to go west with the army, and the general is like a tiger with wings." ”
"Haha, Mr. Lou praised me too much."
As with all celebratory feasts, the rules began to behave until the wine was high, and no one could silence a group of young people.
Zhang Shiduan likes to talk about "the world", and grabs every guest to describe the ambition in his chest: "In less than three years, I will be able to lead an army of 100,000 people, the Northern Expedition to He Rong, the Southern Ping Barbarians, and return you to a peaceful world!" ”
Lou Ji is a newcomer in this group of people, except for Zhang Shiduan, who is not very familiar with anyone, and cannot calmly integrate into it, and just after the second watch, he pretended to be drunk and fell down.
After a long time, Zhang Shiduan found that one of the guests had fallen, and immediately ordered the servant to send Lou Gongzi to the guest room to rest.
Return to the garden near the water, the guest room is a small building, after the window is opened, you can see the lake and the moon, the building foundation can not actually sleep, push the window to look at the distance, restless.
There seemed to be a boat sailing on the lake, and when I looked at it carefully, it was indeed a small boat, floating slowly, and there was no nod on the boat, and there seemed to be no one.
The boat gradually approached, faintly heard the sound of a woman's laughter, the building hurriedly closed the window, and the garden was full of palaces, maybe whose family's relatives came out to play at night.
A moment later, there was a sound of stones knocking outside the window, and Lou Ji was taken aback, and his first thought was that Zhang Shiduan's servant had sent him to the wrong room, so he didn't respond, hoping that the outside would think that there was no one here.
After a few sounds, someone outside shouted softly: "Is it Lou Seventeen Gongzi above?" ”
Lou Ji was taken aback again, the other party was looking for himself, this time he couldn't pretend to be confused, so he had to push the window and say: "It's me, how many are ......"
The boat ropes were attached to the stone pillars on the shore, and five or six women were crammed into the boat, looking up at the window.
"Duan Shizi said that he would arrange you in this upstairs." One laughed.
It turned out that he was "betrayed" by Zhang Shiduan, and he couldn't cry or laugh at the building, although the moonlight was bright, he still couldn't recognize the faces of the people on the boat.
"Ladies and gentlemen...... Looking for me? ”
"I heard that the Queen Mother is arranging family affairs for you, we have to come over and see for yourself." A woman said.
Lou Ji saw clearly, there were six people on the boat, seeing that there was no maid in the dress, hearing this, his heart was displeased, and he arched his hand and said: "You are all the daughters of your family, you come to visit late at night, it is very inconvenient, please go back." ”
"Hee-hee, he's still a serious boy. Lou Seventeen, I might as well tell you clearly, the Queen Mother wants to choose one of the daughters of the kings to marry into the Lou family, we don't want to be such ignorant women, what to talk about three from the four virtues, marry the husband from the husband, no matter who you marry, you must first see it clearly. ”
"Are you drunk?" Lou Ji couldn't smell the wine upstairs, but listening to their voices, it seemed that they were very drunk.
"If you men are allowed to indulge in alcohol, we are not allowed to drink a few glasses?"
These princesses and daughters were spoiled by the emperor, and Lou Ji said: "You should have seen me in the Guangling Palace, right?" ”
"Ugh, recognized." A woman said.
"What are you afraid of?" Another woman said, "Lou Seventeen, the last time we met didn't count, we had a good time, and we didn't look at you carefully." ”
"Now that I've read it carefully, please go back, don't mess with others."
"Unless Duan Shizi is not doing his job well, otherwise, there will definitely be no outsiders around." A woman laughed and thought it was all interesting.
Lou Ji was annoyed, and with four or five points of wine, he said, "In that case, please go upstairs and talk." ”
The women on the boat laughed incessantly, but no one landed on shore.
"We don't go upstairs, we feed the lake fish with three faces, send wine with three faces, and keep the rest to ourselves. We won't delay you for long, just ask a few words and leave. ”
"Excuse me."
"Do you know how to write poetry? Tonight the lake is beautiful and the moon is beautiful, how many words may you chant? ”
"Writing poetry is not what you are good at."
"Uninteresting."
Another asked, "Can you ride a fast horse?" ”
"I just rode during the day, and my body aches and pains still don't go away."
Another woman asked, "Fuqin, flute, pitcher, shooting, shuanglu, and Tibetan hook, what are you good at?" ”
"I'm ashamed, I'm not good at everything."
"It's boring. Let's go, let the Queen Mother choose another daughter to be his wife. ”
"Slow down and don't send it." The building was about to close the window, and there was a person on the boat: "I heard that your article is well written." ”
"It just happens to cater to someone's mind, and writing articles is not my forte, there are countless talents in the capital, you go and inquire, there will be no name in it."
"There's always something you're good at, right?"
"Hmm...... I studied under Mr. Wenren in the Temptation Academy, and I have learned a little bit about the study of name and reality, but other than that, I am not good at anything else. ”
Several women on the boat talked to each other, and they did not shy away from the building.
"Isn't the Temptation Hall a place for rogue children?"
"What is the study of name and reality?"
"This person is neither interesting nor promising, let's go, go back and tell the other sisters, don't be chosen by the Queen Mother, and you must find a way to shirk if you are chosen."
"Or see who hates it, recommend it to the Queen Mother......"
"Hee-hee, here's a way."
Six or seven untied the cable and rowed away, and the sound gradually faded.
The building closed the window, inexplicably, thinking that such a princess would not marry, and she would not regret it at all.
Early the next morning, everyone saw off Zhang Shiduan, and the building had to go back to Zishiyuan to standby, and he couldn't go out of the city, so he came to say goodbye first.
Zhang Shiduan was refreshed, and smiled as soon as he saw Lou Ji: "Did you sleep well last night?" ”
"I had a weird dream about someone knocking on a window."
"Haha, don't worry about Lou Gongzi, it's a few cousins who make trouble, they grew up in the palace, they are favored by the Queen Mother and Her Majesty, after leaving the palace, their father and brother are not in the house to take care of them, they are more and more out of rules, but there is no malice."
Lou Ji waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care, he actually had something to say when he came in advance, "Even if I talk too much, I still have to say: King Guangling had better not return to Beijing." ”
The smile on Zhang Shiduan's face gradually disappeared, "Your Majesty said that the general would do everything possible to prevent my father from returning to Beijing, but I didn't expect that it would be you who came forward, I thought it was a casual remark yesterday, it seems that you are serious." ”
The emperor almost guessed everything, and Lou Ji sighed, "Then ask the prince to bring a message to King Guangling." ”
"Hmm." Zhang Shiduan was noncommittal.
"The flood is raging, and the Tao is gone."