Chapter 7 (I)
The sun had completely sunset, and the maids quietly shuttled and lit up the stone lanterns on the ground one by one. The lights are staggered and flickering, dotted between the mountains and rivers, looking from a distance, it actually looks a little like the stars on the ground.
"Cousin, this is the best Sejiang white tea, you can taste it, I heard that the uncle's favorite tea was this tea."
“…… Well. ”
The first reaction was, "Who is your uncle?" Then, Yun Chongbo thought of the "uncle" in the mouth of the emperor, of course, it was the "father" that others knew at this moment, the hidden prince who had lost miserably in the political dispute many years ago and lost his own life and the lives of his whole family.
"There were too many people just now, it wasn't very convenient, but now it's just you and my brother, we can finally sit down and talk."
With a friendly smile and just the right amount of enthusiasm, Di Mufeng chatted while hanging tea for himself, although most of them seemed to be meaningless gossip, but listening to it in the ears would make people feel at ease.
Yesterday, Yun Chongbo received an invitation to "sit in the house" at night, and after bidding farewell to Tianji Ziwei, he hurriedly stepped up and finally rushed into the mansion of Emperor Mufeng before the appointed time.
Compared with the previous meeting with Yuntai Mountain, the atmosphere of this time was completely different: the seats were full of Jinshi, all dressed in vermilion and purple, mostly those middle-level officials from poor families or small and medium-sized families, including even Meng Shu and Chen Tong, and two scribes in their thirties from the Confucian sect also participated.
The feast was over for a while, the other guests resigned, and Yun Chongbo was invited by Emperor Mufeng to "sit for a while" in the back garden.
…… Along the way, Yun Chongbo knows what it means to be "rich and poor".
This is not outside the city, but the land of the capital where every inch of land is valuable, but the emperor can have more than 1,000 acres of mansions, of which more than ninety percent are used to pile mountains and dig water, plant flowers and trees, and live in the eleventh year.
This is a very extravagant handwriting, but look at it in detail, but there is no ostentatious taste, Yun Chongbo since entering the house, do not see gold and silver, do not see silk, use of jade or copper, or even have a clay pot horn cup, all of them reveal a simple taste, I am afraid that it is not thousands of years of antiquities.
At this moment, the place where the two sit together, but a stone table, two stone chairs, no pavilion, no way, the river flows on the side, there is no koi and no lotus in it, but it is overgrown with reeds more than one person high, occasionally splashing a few times on the water, and the toad loach is also the most upturned up. Yun Chongbo looks around, there are stone mountains stretching in the east and south, trees are planted in the west and north, and where the eyesight can be reached, in addition to the stone lanterns set up in thirty steps, it is purely the barren mountains and wild rivers that I have been used to seeing since childhood, where there is a little garden flavor?
"Since I was studying, I have studied from all over the world and read ancient and modern articles."
You Ran sighed, Emperor Mufeng said that he was idle, and he had to learn poetry and books in his life, and he firmly believed in the teachings of the sage "read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles".
"The friendship between the seventeenth lang of the Wang family and me is excellent, and every time he travels through the imperial capital, he will come to see me."
Every time he hears about the exploration of those exhaustive extremities, Emperor Mufeng will feel sincerely envious, but he can't, as one of the only two adult princes, he has been given a completely different education from Emperor Xiangxian since he was a child, even if he sometimes goes out of Beijing, he must follow the strictest etiquette system, monarchs and ministers, nothing to lose.
"That's why I built this 'long time in the house', and occasionally meditated for a while, and I felt happy and open."
"I ...... I don't feel that way. ”
Yun Chongbo said very frankly that he grew up in the countryside and mountains, and since he was a child, he has seen these things and doesn't want to see them.
"When I was young, what I wanted most was to have meat to eat, oil to eat, a car to sit on, gold and silver and satin, and the more the better...... Wild mountain style? It's something that people in the city who don't have to live in will love. ”
Although he was pushed up, Di Mufeng was not embarrassed, but laughed out loud, saying that the world is exactly like this, the more you don't have it in your hand, the more you think it's a good thing.
"Just like the identity of you and my brother, Fengzi Longsun, is only one step away from the ninety-five positions, who in the world doesn't think it's the best? But only you and I can experience the taste of being in the game. ”
“…… Is it. ”
"It was meant to be."
Patting the stone table with emotion, Emperor Mufeng said that the person he asked for could be a rich and noble king, and his wish would be enough.
"And what about you, cousin? What do you want to do, is the Taiping Virtuous King? Or ......"
"King Leisure, King Xian......"
muttering a few words, Yun Chongbo seemed to see another picture thousands of years ago in front of him: in Qingzhou, in Jinguan, borrowing the power of the East King and the North King to attack together, the Heavenly King wrote his determination on the tall stone peak for everyone to see.
…… I am the King of Men!
"King Xian, King Xian...... I don't want to do it. ”
"If I were king...... There must be no king in the world. ”
Turning his head to look at Emperor Mufeng, Yun Chongbo smiled and said, "Third Highness, Fengzi Longsun said that...... It's too high. I am the next general of Taiping Road, entering Beijing or coming to assassinate the emperor...... Believe, or not believe, that's it. ”
Emperor Mufeng got up calmly and said, "My cousin has the enmity of my parents, and my foolish brother can save it." But what the foolish brother said is also full of heartfelt words, life is short, thousands of books are collected, just to be a rich and idle king...... Please. ”
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After resigning from the Emperor Mufeng Mansion, he didn't go far, he heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and when he looked back, he was a person dressed as a Taoist priest, and he was chasing after him.
(Is that the Fang Shi surnamed Ying?) )
At the banquet just now, this person also participated, but it was quite low-key, Yun Chongbo vaguely remembered that he seemed to be one of the diners in the Emperor Mufeng Mansion, and now he was chasing himself, but what did he mean?
After observing left and right, Yun Chongbo slowed down his horse and waited for the other party to approach.
"Hello, the undead."
After getting closer, Yun Chongbo saw his appearance clearly, but he was in his early twenties, and his expression was blank, and he looked dumbfounded. But as soon as he opened his mouth, he was suddenly startled by Yun Chongbo.
"In Xia Yingpeng, on the orders of the family teacher, I want to join the Taiping Dao."
"What do you say? Who is your teacher? ”
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"What the fuck are you...... Old flower, you killed us! ”
After drinking until his face was flushed, Yang Jizhi slapped the table hard and scolded loudly. And the other party did not show weakness, also slapped the table hard, and scolded the general back with a louder voice.
"Pit your mother's legs...... It's right that you lied to me, I said that you have such a background, we can't join hands to make a big vote, why should I pull down my face and beg the two little bastards of the ghost tribe! ”
Both of them were half-drunk, their voices were so loud that they were angry, and foul language was rolling out, but they were still able to keep the bottom line, and they didn't lift the table anymore and beat them, and Yun Chongbo sat sideways, and they didn't bother to care about them, so they just kept picking up vegetables.
Just now, Yun Chongbo returned to his residence, but unexpectedly found that everyone was hiding far away, watching two drunks scolding at each other. casually grabbed Yuan Tianxin and asked, but saw that he was just shaking, unable to reach his intentions, and had no choice but to beat him in the face before he could be regarded as helping him calm down.
“…… It's a failure, it's a failure! ”
When it was getting dark, someone suddenly came to the door, his face was pale, and he slammed a piece of jade pendant on the table.
"Presbyopia...... You're getting bolder! ”
The people in the thousands of doors are afraid of everything, but they have not been afraid of the bitter master coming to the door to make trouble, when the next whistle is called, the stick is raised, then it is a hard idea to think of the person who comes, three times five divided by two, what is the village Yuan Tianxin is black and idle...... They were all beaten into rolling gourds, and Bao Cun was even unloaded with a thigh and rolled on the ground bloodily, just wailing. Or Hua Shengrong hurriedly ran out, and he didn't know how to persuade a few words, so that he could appease the future. The two scalded a few pots of wine, sat down to drink---- but the atmosphere was really not good, and before the third round, they slapped the table again and quarreled.
"Oh, that's it...... Don't be afraid, he can't beat me. ”
recognized at a glance that it was Yang Jizhi, a "craftsman", Yun Chongbo didn't take it to heart, but said that there was some kind of deception and entanglement between him and Hua Shengrong, walked forward, forcibly separated the two, and after pressing them back to their seats, he only said: "You can beat people, you are not allowed to smash things, you want money!" So he sat down to drink and eat by himself, and as for the quarrel and scolding between the two, it was in the left ear and out of the right ear, and he didn't pay attention to it at all.
(Ying Peng...... What the hell is going on with this guy? )
Just now, the monk "Ying Peng" introduced himself, saying that he was a disciple of Zhang Yuankong, and he came to Taiping Dao at the request to see what they were doing.
"Well, it's good that you want to join Taiping Dao...... But why do you look for Taiping Dao and find it in the imperial capital to eat...... Doorman? ”
He almost said the word "diner", but this obviously had no effect on Ying Peng, it was still Mu Ne's look, he explained that he had another goal, to come to the imperial capital to do one thing, and then because he heard that an old Jing monk who was very familiar in the past has now become a Taoist priest, and he is still a guest in the mansion of a very large person, so he came to pay a visit, and then he was retained by the emperor Mufeng, saying that he might as well stay for a few more days, and then ...... Ying Peng, who has always believed that "it is a good thing for someone to take care of the meal, there are really many good people in this world", was pleasantly surprised to find that the big man of Taiping Dao actually sent it to the door by himself.
"It can be seen that doing good deeds and accumulating virtue will definitely be rewarded."
In the end, he could still make such a summary, Yun Chongbo had an illusion for a while, thinking that he did not come to visit the Emperor Mufeng Mansion, but still stayed in the residence, and drank with Yuan Tianxin and other thousands of doors.
In the end, Yun Chongbo expressed his welcome to Ying Peng, but "joining Taiping Dao" Yunyun had to make reservations: for the safety of both parties, since entering Beijing, he took the initiative to cut off any contact with the hidden personnel of Taiping Dao, and if Ying Peng really wanted to join Taiping Dao immediately, he could introduce him to the area occupied by Taiping Dao.
"Oh, that's no hurry...... Anyway, since you approve of the immortal, then I should consider myself already a member of the Taiping Dao. ”
"Don't talk like that!"
And sure enough, just as Yun Chongbo expected, the other party naturally continued: "There is one more thing, I hope the immortal can help." ”
(Visit Qin Tianjian ...... What is he going to do? )