I met her smile and nodded, "Alone." ”

The woman smiled again: "Guest, please, sit casually." ”

I bowed to her and said, "I want to go upstairs to the third room, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

The woman's face changed color as soon as she heard this, and the man who was leaning against the cabinet behind her immediately stood up straight, looked at me very alertly, and then looked out.

The woman's upset said: "I'm really sorry, someone has already booked that seat, why don't you change the room?" ”

I let out an "oh" and asked, "I don't know who ordered it?" "It's a bit nosy.

The woman was not annoyed, but only whispered, "It's a guest surnamed Yu." ”

Surname Yu? I remembered Cao Fu's words, and suddenly said, "But Yu Ke? ”

The woman looked at me a few more times, and said solemnly, "Could it be the child?" ”

I nodded.

When I came to the third room on the third floor, it was exactly as I thought, the same as in Daxing City, and even the direction of the coffee table had not changed.

I finally knew that the owner of this teahouse - that is, the woman standing in front of me - she turned out to be a famous Jiangdong dancer Ding Yu'er, who was the most famous dancer in Jiankang's largest dance studio "Qing Bu Gui" when she was young, and she looked very young, but in fact she was over 30 years old, and she was living well in Jiankang, but she didn't know why she came to Luoyang to open a teahouse.

Of course, I didn't ask, I just said: "In Xia Yuke, I have seen Boss Ding." ”

Ding Yu'er waved his hand and smiled: "Son, you don't have to be polite, I don't know what to order?" ”

I said: "There is a letter, please send it to the capital to Xiao Ling's mansion in the matter, the sooner the better." ”

Ding Yu'er said: "This matter is not difficult, it can be delivered tomorrow." ”

I took out a letter from my sleeve and handed it to her, she took it and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Is it addressed to Mrs. Fushang?" ”

I smiled and nodded, seeing a hint of weirdness in her eyes, I thought she was crooked, and I wanted to explain, but after thinking about it, I still forgot it.

When I walked out of the teahouse, it rained again, and the fine rain rendered a trace of sadness in the slightly humid air.

On the wasteland outside Luoyang City, the piles of bones looked shocking in the vast rain curtain. I am reminded of what the Buddhists often say about purifying sentient beings, so many souls who died in vain, I don't know if Yan Cong's few volumes of scriptures can cross them. Then I thought about it carefully, in fact, they were born in this era by mistake, destined to become cannon fodder for the emperor to realize his ambitions, and maybe I did the same.

If my father is not Tang Guogong, but a flat-headed common man, at my age, he is either building a new capital or a canal, or lying here like these lifeless shells in front of him, and when the weather is clear, a fire will burn away, and there will be no ashes left.

I'm just a lot luckier than them, because my dad is Tang Guogong.

The rain gradually subsided, and through the dripping filaments, I caught a glimpse of a man standing not far away, just like me.

The man didn't have an umbrella, he stood there alone like a statue, I glanced in his direction, I felt his head also tilt this way, and when I saw someone here, he walked in my direction.

When he got closer, I recognized that he was Tu Wanxu.

He wore no armor, only a dark gown, which was very disproportionate to his full beard, and the rain was running down his forehead, and his eyes were gloomy and gloomy.

When he saw that it was me, he smiled bitterly and said, "The squire and a certain person really have the same destination." ”

I didn't expect to meet him here, shouldn't he have left Luoyang for the east a long time ago? I listened to his words, and smiled wryly like him, and said: "The general is a man of the army, and he has always been informal, why did he pretend to be Sven in front of the lower officials?" ”

Tu Wanxu arched his hand at me when he heard this: "If you are a straightforward person, I will not be polite." To tell you the truth, I really didn't want to go to Jinju this time, and it was raining, so I postponed the schedule for some reason. ”

I said, "Do you regret it?" ”

He seemed to be stunned for a moment, then understood what I meant, and asked rhetorically: "At the beginning, he was the king of Jin, and his name of loyalty, righteousness, benevolence and filial piety was written in the world, who would have thought that there would be today?" ”

I said, "Someone wants it." "I think of Mr. Fang, if Mr. Fang was here at the moment, would he have pointed to these dead people and questioned me? Will you contemptuously disdain not to talk to me at all?

He was stunned for a moment and said, "I can't think of it anyway." I heard that the squire once tried to stop this matter in the Golden Palace, and almost lost his head? Hey, the emperor is no longer the king of Jin back then. ”

This kind of emotion is too ironic to me, Yang Guang has never been the King of Jin in Tu Wanxu's imagination, not from the beginning. Tu Wanxu can say that those who don't know are not guilty, but what about those of us who know? Yang Suyu wrote about Zhang Heng, and what about my father and me?

Li Min is suffering, and we are all accomplices.

I thought about it and said solemnly to him: "Don't worry, general, maybe you don't have to go to Jinzhou this time, I hope this rain will fall for two more days, and the general and Hou Jiayin." ”

Tu Wanxu's gloomy eyes brightened a little, and he looked at me sharply and said, "In the past, when I was in the East Palace, although you and I had no contact, but I appreciated it very much because you dared to work against Yu Wenhua. But now I don't think there is any way left, the emperor wants to establish immortal deeds, these people ...... And we, all of them are just insignificant pawns. ”

Actually, I thought about it with him, but I didn't want to admit it, so I just said, "Maybe." ”

Then went back to the barracks with him.

Two days later, Yang Guang sent an edict saying that the construction of the Yongji Canal had been postponed and that the renovation of the ditch and the Jiangnan River would be completed.

After Tu Wanxu received the edict, he couldn't wait to drag me to the city to drink, but I was not in the mood at all.

Like the last time I witnessed the tragic situation of the Liangyi Palace, I sat in Ding Yu'er's teahouse for a day, I didn't talk much, I didn't drink tea, just sitting, Ding Yu'er was very understanding and didn't come to disturb me, the guy next to her was too young, and a little afraid of me, so I was almost the only one in the room I was.

Actually, I don't even know what I should think, I only know one thing - if it wasn't for Li Xuanba pulling me out of the city, if he hadn't stimulated me there, I wouldn't have thought about doing anything to change anything, not because I didn't want to change, but because I felt that I couldn't do it at all.

And now, because of Li Xuanba's words, I just wrote a fluttering letter to tell Yu Ru what I saw, and asked her to present her feelings in front of Xiao Li, and the whole matter of the people's husband recruitment was done? I found it incredible, as I had seen a long time ago, the great ship of the entire empire turning in an irrepressible force, and now I realized that this rotation was not unstoppable.

It's been a long time since I've thought about my life as a gangster, but now I can't help but think about it. I looked at myself with self-deprecation at myself dressed in the gorgeous clothes of a noble son, but inside I was still a bad seed, a person who didn't dare to think or do anything. It occurred to me that I was too naïve to think that I was going to be the boss before, and that I deserved to be hacked to death on the street if I had a thief's heart or not the guts.

I even inevitably thought of Ruoxiu, thinking of my unexplained regret on the wedding night, if it weren't for my father's good intentions, I would only accept the life that had been arranged, and not think about any other possibilities at all. When Ruoxiu left for the last time, I obviously didn't want her to go, but I didn't even think to say anything about staying, I would just wait for the result, but I never fought for anything. My subconscious told me that it was useless to fight for it, and that I had to resign myself to my fate.

Just like my cleverness, what if I am a little clever? My clever tricks, after witnessing the tragedy of the Liangyi Palace, can only obediently admit it. There will always be people in this world who are much smarter than me, and my little cleverness is not worth mentioning at all.

This is me, the token of Qingyu Pavilion was just a piece of scrap metal for me in the past, and the identity of the eldest son of the Duke of Tang is useless to me, I am still that gangster, I never think about too complicated issues, I have to get by, whether I am Yu Ke or Li Jiancheng.

When Ding Yu'er pushed the door in, she saw me finally picking up the teacup and drinking tea, and said with a smile: "Childe is really strange, the thing is done, but he is depressed." ”

I said coldly, "I didn't do it." ”

Ding Yu'er waved his hand and said, "How can it not be done by the son?" If it weren't for Gongzi's letter, Xiao Langzhong wouldn't care about the suffering of the people, so how could he intercede in front of the queen? If it weren't for the queen's mother, how could the emperor change his mind and postpone the recruitment? In the final analysis, the credit is still in the son. ”

I laughed at myself and said, "If you hadn't sent someone to deliver the letter, this thing wouldn't have been ......."

Before I finished speaking, Ding Yu'er interrupted: "Childe's words are bad again. Don't you hear about Han Gaozu? He once said that his literature is not as good as Xiao He, his martial arts are not as good as Han Xin, and his strategy is not as good as Zhang Liang. But he is the one who wins the world, just because there is a way to use people. ”

Her words more or less made me feel a little better, and I didn't want to think about it anymore. I took a sip of tea, smiled and interrupted: "You Jiangnan women, are you all like you, are you well-versed in poetry and books and understand righteousness?" ”

She seemed to be amused by my words, and said with a smile: "Childe said that he was funny, but he has skimmed one or two books, how dare he say that he understands?" As for the deep understanding of righteousness, it is even more fallacious. ”

She got up and walked out, and after a while she turned back, put a very delicate small wooden box on the coffee table and said, "I also have one thing, I want to ask Gongzi for help." ”

I looked at the small wooden box and said, "Please speak." ”

She pushed the small wooden box in front of me and said, "The annoying boy brought this to Mr. Cao in the Drunken Hongjian Teahouse." ”

Now it's my turn to look at her weirdly, Cao Fu opened a teahouse, she also opened a teahouse, and she also opened the same teahouse, and now she asked me to send tokens, and even ghosts can see that there is an ulterior secret between these two people.

I stared at her for a moment, smiled at her, and said, "I must bring it." ”

Her face was a little red when I saw it, and she only said, "Thank you so much, Childe." ”

I looked at it again, and I couldn't hold back my laughter.