On the first day of the first lunar month, the festivities emerge like a crowd of people on the streets, and everyone has a smile on their faces, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, and the same happiness is in Kyoto today, and of course, out of the silent imperial city in the inner city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as the gate of the imperial city was opened in the morning, a carriage came out of it, and the people on the carriage should have stayed in the imperial city for a few more days, after all, this is also his home, because he is the crown prince, the only son of the emperor, and this imperial city and even the world will become his sooner or later, but he is unwilling to stay there for a while, if it weren't for the queen last night, plus the persuasion of Shang Xue and others, he probably wouldn't come.

He couldn't stand the dullness in the imperial city, everyone's faces were covered with a layer of dust, just like those decaying palaces, exuding a dead air, and what he couldn't stand was the whole imperial city, only the lights in the pavilion were constantly lit day and night, and the strange smell of medicine and burning wood had already diffused in this imperial city, and his father didn't even come out to see him, or even let people send a message.

"Did you know? He began to refine the pill again, and those Taoist priests offered him the pill again, and the broken furnace burned even more vigorously. The prince said and slammed the teacup in his hand on the ground, the anger on his face could not be concealed, this is not the prince's mansion, but Shang Xue's home, after venting his anger, he naturally did not come to comfort him, only Shang Xue's sigh.

"Isn't there no money anymore?" Shang Xue said leisurely, the prince on the side finally reined in his temper, sat on the chair, Yuan Shanshan changed him with new tea, and began to clean up the crumbs on the ground.

"It was said that it was the money from the inner treasury, and those eunuchs really had the heart, and they actually got the silver again." The crown prince Yuan Hong has been following Shangxue since he was a child, and those eunuchs who can only live in the imperial city are far less trusting than his father, and sometimes more disgusted.

Shang Xue's brows furrowed slightly, his face had become a little blue, Yuan Hong didn't notice, "Where in this world don't you want money, Liangjiang, counterinsurgency and ......" He didn't finish his words, but he saw Yuan Shanshan's eyes, and stopped talking this time.

Shang Xue stood up, walked to the door, looked up at the clear sky in the sky, and couldn't help but sigh faintly, "You care about the world, this is a good thing, you can see the situation clearly, it is not easy, but why can't you see that person clearly?" ”

The old man turned his head to look at the crown prince behind him, "You can't understand his mind, how can you inherit the throne safely?" How did those people on the right influence the situation? Isn't it because of your youthfulness and recklessness, that you want to use the world to say things, at least you have power in your hands, and now? Needless to say, there are six departments, but among those fragmentary yamen, how many people are sincere to you? ”

Yuan Hong's face was hot, for many years, since Shang Xue was forced to leave Shangjing, he no longer had a teacher, stumbling to this day, and finally someone told him, how lonely you are, how powerful your opponent is, you are the crown prince, but you are just one person, and your enemies will be the entire court, will be those courtiers.

"You go to buy gifts now, go back in the afternoon, go back with Shanshan, see the emperor and queen, the New Year, naturally want a family reunion, don't talk about those things that annoy Your Majesty, understand?" Shang Xue looked at the other party, his tone was firm and could not be refuted, Yuan Hong didn't say anything, got up and saluted, and left.

Yuan Shanshan had already changed her clothes, and the originally fresh and refined woman was even more dignified and luxurious at the moment, and the two got into the carriage, looking at each other speechlessly, only smiling faintly.

Not long after the two left, another horse stopped at the back door of Shangfu, and Shang Xue quietly got into the carriage, he had no children and no daughters, so naturally he would not stay in the mansion to celebrate the New Year alone. The carriage carried the old man for a long time, until he left the inner city and reached a river in the outer city, and then the old man got out of the carriage and got on a flower boat parked by the river, which quietly left the shore and floated towards the center of the river.

"Where did the money come from?" Shang Xue came here to see people, so hidden, naturally not ordinary people, the other party is an internal guard, and he is one of the nine people, the other party's face is a little pale, and the age is much younger than the old man, "It was directly handed over to Your Majesty by Uncle Jiu." ”

Shang Xue was not surprised, pondered for a moment, and nodded, "It's Li Huai." ”

The other party nodded, "He has become one of the nine, and the third died in the south, and he just made up for it." ”

"Hmph," Shang Lao's face couldn't help but be a little mocking, thinking of the young man who was talking and laughing with him in Yecheng, he felt more and more that he was really old, "In the future, you have to be careful, try not to conflict with him, you should know about his affairs." ”

"It's clear that because of him these days, the internal guard has been very busy."

"Oh, what are you looking for?"

"It's not clear now, there are rich businessmen from all over the country, people on the rivers and lakes, there are also rebels over there and in the north, and there are more than a dozen border guards, there should be more, the second child in the meticulous place didn't go home for the New Year, if it weren't for His Majesty's edict, it is estimated that Li Huai would have been killed long ago." The other party said, his face was also amused, although the second child was in charge of the secrets, all the secret agents and secret sentinels were in his hands, but this New Year required so much information, naturally he was tired enough.

And on the other side of him, the old man's face was a look of contemplation, he was naturally guessing what Li Huai was going to do, when he was in Yecheng, he knew the other party's style of doing things, the instant rout of Dulonggang, in fact, it was more of his early planning and preparation, when it was time to really do it, it must be a storm, and before that, no one could detect it, and now he actually made such a big move, and even called the entire meticulous place, as well as His Majesty's hand, just guessing, he knew that the other party had a big plan.

"Where's the right minister?" Shang Lao's only worry is the connection between the two, seeing that the other party shook his head, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the boat floated quietly on the river, and it didn't take long to reach the inner city basin, where there were all kinds of flower boats docked, although it was the first day of the new year, but the business here was indeed very lively, looking at the flowers, a few people could think of things in a few months.

The old man got off the boat, and just as he was about to board the carriage, he saw several young people standing not far away, talking about a confidante on the flower boat in the distance, and even chanted the obscene sentence "Half covered and half exposed, wanting to cover up and be ashamed", which caused several people to laugh.

"It's from the Liu family, and Li He's original wife is from the Liu family. The people around him laughed, and the old man nodded, and then stopped looking. A few young men seemed to feel the sight of the place, and when they looked back, they could only see the carriage leaving.

Before thinking about it, several people hugged each other and went to another flower boat......