Wucheng is entrenched in the highest blessed land at the foot of Guxi Mountain, and the Lin Zhong River flows slowly in front of it, and the feng shui is excellent. The palace of King Chen, Yangri Palace, is located in the north of the inner city of Wucheng, and the outer layers of buildings deeply cover Yangri Palace.

Inside the Purple Gold Pavilion of Yangri Palace.

A man in purple stood with his hands behind his back, his white hair was like a waterfall, and the ends of his hair were tied at random, and behind him knelt a young man, handsome, with eyes like stars, with a respectful face, and he did not move.

"I'll leave Wucheng tomorrow and never come back." The man in purple turned around, and he was greeted by a young and upright face, lined with his gorgeous hair, inexplicably with a fairy aura, "I have reported to Your Majesty, from now on, you will be the national teacher of Chen Kingdom." ”

The young man knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said, "Obey the master's orders." ”

"Baiya, you have to remember that after two hundred years, there will be a catastrophe in the Chen Kingdom. This catastrophe requires a hundred years of careful planning to survive. I will give you a hundred years of life with blood floating, and from tomorrow, everything you do is for the future Chen Kingdom. The man in purple smiled and said, "I believe in you, you are the person I personally selected and cultivated, I believe that in two hundred years, the Chen Kingdom will be even stronger." ”

The young man kowtowed again and said, "Obey the teacher's orders." ”

One.

Wucheng is the capital of Chenguo, divided into two cities, the inner city is the palace of the king of Chen and the place where the prince and the prince opened the mansion to build teeth, after the king of Chenling, the mansion of the second grade of the Chenguo was also built to the inner city. The outer city is where the common people live, unlike other countries where households return to their homes and cities return to the city, but the cities are staggered, and many people are downstairs with shops, which is very lively.

The largest street in the outer city is called Dongcheng Lane, the weather is good today, I asked He Yunsheng to go to the night tower of Dongcheng Lane to listen to music, I didn't think about it and He Yunsheng walked out of the inner city, and before my feet stepped on the bluestone slab of Dongcheng Lane, I met Sun Yuji, who went out to grab medicine and came back.

Sun Yuji held the medicine in one hand and crossed his waist in the other, looking at me and He Yunsheng with a smile, and saw that we were both hairy.

"Rain, Yuji, did you come back so soon after grabbing the medicine?" I greeted her extremely unnaturally and tried to pull out a smile.

"Yulan, if I'm not mistaken, Xiangye wants you to copy the Analects a hundred times at home today before you can go out, right?" Sun Yuji approached step by step, I retreated step by step, pushed to the gate of the inner city, and was unwilling to retreat again, so I pulled He Yunsheng in front of me, in a vain attempt to block Sun Yuji.

I pulled the purse on He Yunsheng's belt, He Yunsheng understood, stopped Sun Yuji and said: "What are you doing Sun Yuji, don't intimidate Yu Lan, he is the son of a dignified prime minister, and he still wants you to preach?" ”

Sun Yuji smiled: "It just so happens that I want to go to the Hou Mansion for Xiangye, and by the way, I can report your recent situation to Hou Ye." ”

When He Yunsheng heard that his father immediately wilted, he hid behind me and pushed me out.

"Want to go to the Midnight Tower to listen to music again? Or go to the Du Family Tavern for a drink? Or go to Westbridge Street to buy paintings? Sun Yuji and I questioned me nose to nose, I didn't dare to say a word, Sun Yuji pulled me and walked to the inner city, "Follow me home!" ”

He Yunsheng immediately got out of the way, pretending to be looking at the scenery, and wanted to wait for me and Sun Yuji to go to the Midnight Tower by ourselves.

Who knew that Sun Yuji took two steps and stopped, turned back to He Yunsheng and said, "I'll go to the Hou Mansion when I go home and deliver the medicine, will you go back?" ”

He Yunsheng's smile stiffened, and he ran away: "I'll go back, go back and make tea and wait for you!" ”

I sullenly followed Sun Yuji and grimaced at her back. Thinking of my dignified son as a prime minister, it is really embarrassing to be led by this little girl every day. But the force behind Sun Yuji is my father, and I really don't dare to do anything to her.

My father is the prime minister of today, and he has nine children, and I am the youngest. My mother is my father's wife, I died of dystocia when I gave birth, I am both a sister-in-law, and the eldest, from childhood to adulthood, everyone in the prime minister's house from my father to me pampered me in every way, until Sun Yuji came to my house.

Sun Yuji is my father's old friend, the daughter of Sun Ao, the chief of the Tai Hospital. Chen Guo since the ancient Tai Hospital is Sun, Wang, Chen three-legged tripod, the three you fight for hundreds of years, the Chen family is the big family of the Chen Kingdom, there are real estate sellers, there are walking in the rivers and lakes, fifty years ago Chen Wu Wang thought that the Chen family was too powerful, so the Chen family's power in the hospital was removed, leaving the Sun family and the Wang family to check and balance each other. Sometimes the Sun family has the upper hand, and sometimes the Wang family has the upper hand. At the end of King Wu's reign, the power of the Wang family weakened, and it was gradually overwhelmed by the Sun family, and it was difficult to turn over.

After the death of King Wu, King Ping succeeded to the throne, the Sun family was too powerful in the Tai Hospital, which provoked King Ping's jealousy, King Ping six years, King Ping used the excuse to behead the Sun family, only Sun Yuji, who happened to come to my house for her father to greet her, and her brother Sun Yuting in the grandmother's house in Silver Tank City escaped. Maybe it was King Ping, who was high above, who finally moved his compassion, or maybe it was because my father kept kowtowing in the court, that King Ping let go of the surviving Sun Yuji brothers and sisters. Sun Yuting's temperament changed dramatically, and he refused to follow the people sent by my father back to Wucheng, so my father had to hand him over to his grandmother's house to raise, and let Sun Yuji live in my house.

Sun Yuji is one year older than me, but Sun Yuji has experienced great changes in the family and is much more mature than his peers, not to mention that I grew up in a greenhouse. Sun Yuji is Uncle Sun's youngest daughter, quiet temperament, very smart, I was six years old that year, my brothers and sisters all went to school at the age of five, because I was greedy for fun, my grandmother spoiled, and I kept dragging it out. It just so happened that Sun Yuji came, and my father asked her to accompany me to school and supervise me by the way.

In the school, Sun Yuji and I met He Yunsheng, the son of Hou Ye, who went to school at the age of eight. He Yunsheng is the same as me, he has a wild temperament, he only went to school after his age, He Yunsheng is more playful than me, he skipped class on the first day of school, and finally Sun Yuji didn't know where to arrest him back, and from then on He Yunsheng was afraid when he saw Sun Yuji.

Chen Guo is now the king of Ping, and there are auxiliary kings of the Song family and the Hou Ye He family. The He family is the only prince of the Chen Kingdom, enjoying the noble treatment of the Hou Ye, and holding the Hou Yin, one of the three major seals of the Chen Kingdom, but has no real power. The use of the He family is to go to the front line to supervise the war for King Chen when there is a war, and to go to the disaster area for King Chen to provide disaster relief when there is a famine, and the official position of the He family cannot be higher than the three products, and they all have to be released to comprehensively suppress the power of the He family.

Even so, the He family is still the only prince of the Chen Kingdom, the only family with a foreign surname with royal blood, He Yunsheng's mother is Princess Jing'an, the niece of the current King Ping, and He Yunsheng is the only boy among the ten children of the old marquis, whether it is the children of the official eunuchs or the common people, they all salute him for three points.

But Sun Yuji didn't care who he was at all.

He Yunsheng and I have a stubborn temperament and smell the same, and when we join forces, we are invincible opponents all over the school, making Mr. miserable, only Sun Yuji can discipline us some, I don't know the old marquis, I only know that my father saw Sun Yuji's deterrence against me, and told her to restrain me well, from homework to usual activities, she was in charge. Over time, the people in the house were also respectful when they saw Sun Yuji, and they were accepted by her.

I have always had the illusion that Sun Yuji is the child daughter-in-law that my father found for our family.

Two.

There is only one person in my family who can make Sun Yuji change from a cold-faced little Yama to a jade-faced little girl, and that person is my third brother Zhou Yuqing. My eldest brother and second brother died early, and the third brother became the eldest son, plus the third brother was well-behaved and clever since he was a child, and at the age of eighteen he was the leader of Zhen Ying's examination Chen Wang, and he successfully entered the Ministry of Rites as an official, polite and sensible, Yushu Linfeng, and I am completely different.

Sun Yuji's feelings for the third brother began with a fire.

At the end of the North Tower Road, there is a small ruined temple, it is said that it is often haunted, one night, He Yunsheng and I have to try our courage, Sun Yuji, who has not left me since childhood, naturally wants to follow, my third brother is not worried about the three of us, and he also followed.

The four of us, with four torches, crept into the temple.

The temple was empty, and even though it was summer, the wind blowing through the hall still made me shiver. The whole temple was empty, only cobwebs hung on it, the Buddha statue was also broken, the candles were half burned, and they had not been burned again for a long time, accumulating a thick layer of ash.

"What, there's no ghost at all." He Yunsheng said, "It's boring, Yulan, let's go." ”

The four of us were about to walk back when a nest of rats ran out of nowhere. Sun Yuji was most afraid of mice, and screamed in fright, He Yunsheng didn't see anything coming out, and was startled by Sun Yuji's scream, thinking that there was a ghost, and began to shout. In the chaos, Sun Yuji's torch fell and fell on a pile of thatch in the ruined temple. The prayer flags in the temple were also set on fire, and the fire immediately grew bigger, burning the small temple red.

He Yunsheng has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he has some kung fu on his body, so he pulled me up and ran out, but the result was that he landed steadily, and I fell into the mud. He Yunsheng still wanted to go in to save my third brother and Sun Yuji, so I was going to look for water, but before He Yunsheng could make a handsome take-off posture, the third brother pulled Sun Yuji out of it in the fire, sat on the ground, and kept panting.

When He Yunsheng saw that the people had come out, he began to run to the street and shouted: "Go to the water!" Let's go to the water! The small temple is gone! Come and put out the fire! ”

I got up from the ground and went to help Sun Yuji, but when I looked closer, I saw that her face was flushed, and her hand was still tightly clenched in my third brother's hand. At that time, I was only ten years old, and I would blush with shame even when I watched the plot of the daughter country in the excerpt of "Journey to the West", naively thinking that Sun Yuji's face was burning. I reached out to pull Sun Yuji, Sun Yuji ignored me, the third brother stood up and pulled her up, she stood up, lowered her head and didn't look at me, I was annoyed, this one has no conscience, I was kind enough to help her, but she ignored me.

The third brother first asked Sun Yuji about the situation, and then came to carefully see if I was injured, and then He Yunsheng, who had been shouting for a long time, ran back and said, "Don't worry, I'm moving fast, Yulan is fine." ”

I lifted the burnt hem of my shirt and showed it to He Yunsheng, who touched his nose and said, "Uh, mistake, mistake." ”

When the fire was extinguished, the four of us walked back to the Prime Minister's Mansion in disgrace, He Yunsheng and I walked in front, and the third brother and Sun Yuji walked in the back. I am night blind, I can't see clearly at night, I can only hear He Yunsheng, who looked back, leaned in my ear and said: "Sun Yuji is not small, why is Brother Yuqing still holding her hand, hum." ”

When I went back that day, my third brother and I were beaten solidly, Sun Yuji was also grounded for half a month, I don't know He Yunsheng's situation, but when he went to school, he didn't dare to sit, and he slept on his stomach.

Thinking back to the painful experience four years ago, I felt as if my butt hurt again, and following Sun Yuji, I thought that if she told my father about me slipping out of the door, it would be another beating.

As I walked, someone called me from behind.

"Old Nine."

As soon as I heard the voice of the third brother, it was as if I had met a savior.

"Third brother!" I threw myself into the arms of the third brother at once, and then hid behind the third brother. When the third brother saw Sun Yuji, he also greeted her and said, "Yuji." ”

Sun Yuji stiffened, smiled very unnaturally, and said, "Brother Yuqing..."

"Third brother, Sun Yuji bullied me again." I hid behind the third brother and complained.

"Yuji won't bully you, you must have run out to play again." The third brother smiled, "Have you finished copying the Analects a hundred times?" ”

"No, I copied my hands yesterday, and I only copied them more than 40 times, and I didn't sleep well, and I had dark circles under my eyes." I approached the third brother to let him see, he looked at me with a smile, and said, "There are dark circles under my eyes, it really makes the third brother feel distressed, I'll help you copy some when you go back, don't let your father know." ”

I cheered and secretly glanced at Sun Yuji, who suddenly squirmed and whispered, "I... I'll copy it for you too. ”

"What? I can't hear you. I grinned and pulled her over to the third brother, "Say it again." ”

"I said I'll copy it for you too!" Sun Yuji said loudly into my ear, just in front of the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she turned around and trotted in, leaving me to cover my ears and shout, the third brother shook his head helplessly, and walked in with a smile.

Since after the early dynasty, my father would usually stay and report the situation to King Ping alone, and he would also visit the national teacher, or find an adult to drink and talk about business, and usually go home at dinner time, so we still have an afternoon to copy the rest of the Analects. My fourth sister never lives at home for some reason, and the fifth brother is a fool, except for them, the third brother, the sixth sister, the seventh brother, the eighth sister, Sun Yuji and me, we have a table and start to get busy.

In all fairness, my father is very good-looking, and my father's wives are naturally not bad-looking, except for my mother, the best-looking is the fifth brother's mother-in-law, Aunt Shangguan. Aunt Shangguan is the niece of the current Queen Mother, Shangguan's family is the family of Yuzhou, Chenguo East Whistle Yuzhou, the four seasons are like spring, Yingge Yanyu, and the people raised are also extraordinarily smart, so my fifth brother was also born with starry eyebrows, full of mountains and rivers, I heard that the fifth brother was a famous prodigy when he was a child, reciting thousands of poems at the age of three, and being the emperor at the age of seven, but when he was ten years old, because of an accident, the fifth brother became a fool.

Since I was a child, the whole family has counted the fifth brother who likes to stick to me the most, no matter how I eat or write, the fifth brother will lie on the side and watch, and even my father will kneel and kneel, and the fifth brother will kneel aside to accompany me. So although the fifth brother is stupid, I still like this brother very much.

Originally, I didn't let the fifth brother into the study, he was curious about everything he saw, and he would stuff it into his mouth, and once he ate a mouth full of ink, who knew that this time the little guy let him in, and while we weren't paying attention, he picked up the inkstone and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Yubai, this can't be eaten." Seeing this, the third brother immediately brought the inkstone over, "Come on, take the fifth master out." ”

The fifth brother pursed his lips and was very unhappy, holding the table leg and not letting go: "Don't eat, don't eat, don't go out." ”

As soon as I saw the fifth brother like this, my heart immediately softened, so I said, "Third brother, let the fifth brother stay here, the fifth brother won't eat indiscriminately, right?" I looked at the fifth brother, and the fifth brother immediately nodded like garlic, and the third brother smiled, waved his hand, and let the little guy go down.

In the end, I finally paid the errand, although most of the handwriting was different, especially the contrast between Sun Yuji's fair regular script and my scribbled calligraphy, but my father still turned a blind eye, let me kneel for a while and let me sleep.

After I came out, Sun Yuji also said to me: "Fortunately, Xiangye didn't pursue us for helping you copy books, otherwise we would not have been punished, you don't care, Brother Yuqing still has a job..."

I was laughed at by her, but I gradually understood Sun Yuji's ignorant nostalgia for the third brother. It's strange to say that my third brother is twenty-four years old and has not yet married, which is very rare in Chenguo; It is true that the threshold of our family is too high, and we have found a lot of girls, either the third brother is not satisfied, or my third brother does not care, and my father is not satisfied. It just so happened that Sun Yuji liked my third brother, I felt that my third brother also liked Sun Yuji, and my father also liked Sun Yuji, so I thought that if Sun Yuji married my third brother, it would be very possible.

When I think about it, I'm afraid, Chenguo has a saying that the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, Sun Yuji will press me when she is young, if she becomes my sister-in-law, she can't care about me until I am old?

It was such a scary idea that it was always my heart when I was a child, and I later learned that I was worrying about it. Because later, Sun Yuji's feelings for my third brother ended without a problem, and they were also extinguished in a fire.

When I was fifteen years old, the Lantern Festival, when the fireworks were set off, my father was entertaining guests, and everyone was so scared that everyone was busy running out, He Yunsheng saw that he forgot his friends, and ran away with the daughter of Shangshu of the Criminal Department, I knew that he was unreliable, and subconsciously grabbed Sun Yuji's hand and ran out, so that the two of us were out of breath, coughing vigorously, and finally straightened up, and saw my third brother, holding a girl and running out.

Sun Yuji shook off my hand suddenly, watched the third brother put down the girl in a daze, and then greeted her with concern.

I watched Sun Yuji's eyes gradually turn red, and I hurriedly said: "You know that my third brother is very good to everyone, and he doesn't necessarily like that girl, don't be sad first." ”

Sun Yuji bit her lip and didn't speak, I saw that she didn't reply to me, tears were already rolling in her eyes, and she was so anxious that she couldn't choose to speak: "That girl seems to be the daughter of your master and Imperial Doctor?" Don't worry, we'll definitely support you, after all, there's a first-come, first-served first, right? And my dad loves you so much..."

Sun Yuji wiped his face, took a deep breath, and turned his head to make a grimace at me: "What are you talking nonsense, I don't understand a word." Then she sped away and ran. I looked at her back a little distressed and helpless, I just saw her exhaling white gas because she couldn't stop breathing and wanted to restrain herself, why was she so stubborn, she refused to show weakness?