(34) Misfortune
"What does Yan'er mean by 'leaving'? Who does she want to leave? Zhao Zhong was taken aback.
I heard Zhao Yan say something about "entering the palace", and suddenly his face turned red, as if he suddenly realized, "Ah, my sister is talking about me, our brother and sister left their hometown, and they 'left' home, and 'entering the palace' means that I was going to enter the palace as an internal servant...... "Zhao Zhong has been in Caofu for nearly a year, he didn't know that he needed to be a eunuch at the beginning, and he couldn't marry a wife later.
I vaguely heard Zhao Yan say what "Zhi En Tu Bao", what "fate", "fate"? Isn't it Yan'er, this girl has a crush? No wonder she didn't let me hear it, she just told my father and mother that this girl was thin-skinned, haha......"
"But who is my future sister-in-law?" Zhao Zhong fell into thought again, "Ahh After a while, Zhao Zhong patted his head and said in his heart, "I'm really stupid, it's not the young master Cao Song, they read and play together every day, and the sister doesn't often go out of the house, so she can't see anyone." And seeing that Lord Cao really treats my Yan'er like a young lady, how could it be like this if he didn't marry his sister to the young master in the future! She said 'repay the kindness', and she repaid the kindness of the Cao family. Although the sister is three or four years older than the little master, as the saying goes, 'female junior, hug the gold brick', the girl is so gentle and virtuous, she will definitely take good care of the little master! Zhao Zhong thought about it and nodded again and again.
Zhao Zhong consciously stayed in Cao's Mansion for so long, and what he saw and knew was no longer comparable to the stupid boy in the countryside back then, thinking that he had guessed his sister's heart, and guessed the master's arrangement, and he was secretly proud in his heart, but he knew that the truth was very different from what he thought.
At this time, Zhao Yan didn't say a word, only cried to herself, Zhao Zhong quietly approached Zhao Yan's side, supported Zhao Yan's shoulder with one hand, and asked the girl to stop kneeling, Zhao Yan was startled and blushed, "Brother, when did you come over!" ”
"Brother just came over, see you crying sadly, don't cry your body......" Zhao Zhongzi couldn't let his sister know that he had heard her words on the side, only said that he had just come.
Zhao Yan thought that in more than ten days, she would not be able to see her brother, she was sad, she turned around and fell into her brother's arms and mourned, Zhao Zhong patted her sister's back, and comforted, "Sister, don't be sad, what is difficult to say to my brother, our brother and sister have nothing to say since childhood, but this year, my brother always has to help Uncle Cao Fu with things, and our brother and sister are unfamiliar......" This sentence is also emotional.
"Brother, I ......" Zhao Yan heard Zhao Zhong say this, and also remembered the love of the brother and sister when she was a child, so she wanted to tell her brother the truth, but suddenly shook her head violently, and said in her heart, "No, no, you must not tell your brother, if you tell your brother Zhi, brother will be ......in danger" was full of depression but no one could confide in, so he could only lie in front of Zhao Zhong and cry.
"Girl! We look like this, even if we marry the emperor, we are worthy of it, are you worried that our family is not worthy of others, so you are sad......" Zhao Zhong only thought that his sister thought that his family was poor and unworthy of the young master of the Cao family, so he cried and comforted.
"What! How could my brother know about this? Didn't my brother listen to what I just said to my father? But I didn't mention the emperor, how could he ......" Zhao Yan was so taken aback that she even stopped crying, and her mouth couldn't help but tremble a little.
"Sister, don't worry, how can the little master not like you? There is one thing you don't know, one day you went out and came back late, and the little master always came to me and asked, 'Where is Sister Yan?' Where did Sister Yan go? ’。 He is so attached to you, I think he must have a deep affection for you. Zhao Zhong didn't want to say it explicitly, but he thought that he had guessed his sister's heart, and he always wanted to show off to others while being proud, so he couldn't help but say it.
"Little master?" Zhao Yan was stunned for a while, and only after a while did she understand that what her brother said was Cao Song, knowing that her brother would be wrong, the previous panic disappeared, and she didn't feel a little funny, and her sadness faded, but the immature face of her younger brother appeared in her mind, but there were too many things in the past few days, and they were all big things, so she forgot about this little guy.
At this time, I recalled that this little guy was so reluctant to part with him, and asked myself to wait for him to come back, I only felt strange at that time. At this time, when my brother mentioned it, I couldn't help but feel a move in my heart, could it be that this little guy actually had affection for me? She didn't understand the relationship between men and women before, and only regarded Cao Song as a younger brother, but recently she and Liu Zhi were tender and sweet, so she suddenly became enlightened about this matter, and she didn't feel that her face was blushing.
Zhao Zhong saw that his sister stopped crying, and his face turned crimson at this time, only saying that he had guessed correctly, and he enlightened Zhao Yan, and the two took the carriage back to Cao's Mansion after worshipping......
Two days passed in a blink of an eye, and since Zhao Yan and her brother returned to Caofu to worship their parents, they locked themselves in the house every day, only threading needles and threads, and weaving clothes and shoes. She just wants to leave this Cao Fu in a few days, and she can't repay Cao Fu's kindness to her in the first half of the year, so she can only make some clothes and shoes to express her feelings. Every day, I just hope to be able to do more, I actually made spring clothes, and I want to make autumn clothes, and I made them for Zhao Zhong, when I think of the separation, I feel sad and irrepressible, and tears have already fallen on the cloth.
Suddenly, I saw the door of the Da Changqiu Mansion open, and walked into a young man and an old man, it was Cao Song and Cao Fu, as soon as Cao Song entered the mansion door, he went straight to Zhao Yan's house, knocked on the door a few times, but the immature voice had already entered the house, "Sister Yan, are you in the house?" Song'er misses you so much these days, I also brought you the famous bacon in Qianjun, you can go out and taste it! ”
It turned out that the Cao family returned to their hometown to worship their ancestors during the Qingming Festival, and Cao Teng returned to the palace first because there was a big sacrifice in the palace, leaving Cao Song and Cao Fu in their hometown, and then returning to Luoyang after the Qingming Festival.
Zhao Yan heard the knock on the door and put away the work in her hand and walked to the door, just pushed the door open, but only felt hugged by Cao Song, she had no scruples before, but at this time her face was red, and she wanted to break free, but she heard Cao Song say as if she was crying, "Sister Yan, you didn't lie to Song'er, and you are still waiting for Song'er to come back." ”
Zhao Yan listened to Cao Song's words, and didn't feel gloomy in her heart, "Although I am still in Cao Mansion now, I will leave you in a few days......" and was shocked, did this little guy have a premonition that I was going to leave Cao Mansion, so he said let me wait for him to come back. This little guy is only good to me, but I am leaving, and my heart is soft at the moment, so I let Cao Song hold him, and I also caress Cao Song's hair.
"Sister Yan, let me tell you, I have been living in my 'daddy' house since I returned to my hometown, oh, it's not my own father, it's Uncle Xiahou who I told you before, I've been calling it smooth again these days, and I can't change it for a while......" After all, it is a young man's nature, Cao Song was immediately happy when he saw Zhao Yan, and he wanted to tell Zhao Yan everything he had seen and heard along the way.
Zhao Yan and Cao Song have been together for a long time, knowing that he always tells her something interesting that he has seen, and said with a smile, "Song'er, but what is interesting?" ”
But seeing that Cao Song was abnormal, his cheeks puffed out on his originally happy face, and he muttered, "This thing is not fun!" ”
Zhao Yan saw that Cao Song's little face was full of seriousness, she only felt cute and funny, and asked with a smile, "What makes Song'er so angry?" ”
Cao Song looked at Zhao Yan with a pair of big eyes, and then said, "Xiahou Guang's brother from Xiahou's father's family married at home, and he boasted about how beautiful and virtuous his new wife was. I went this time, and Brother Xiahou Guang said to me, 'Brother Song, I think you have heard that your brother has married your sister-in-law, it's not that your brother is talking nonsense, your sister-in-law is the first beauty in the world, and the first gentleness in the world, but it's a pity that I was the first in the world to marry, and you can't marry in the future!" I was curious, so I wanted to see what this 'number one in the world' looked like. Hearing this, Zhao Yan was also curious, and listened carefully to what Cao Song said.
"But when I saw this sister-in-law who was the 'first in the world', I felt that she was not even one of Sister Yan's ten, so I said, 'What kind of is this the first in the world', Sister Yan in my house is the first in the world!" Hearing this, Zhao Yan's face was already burning red, and she was certainly happy in her heart, because every beautiful woman would always feel a little proud and secretly happy when she heard others praise her appearance, not to mention hearing Cao Song praise her as "the first in the world".
But I heard Cao Song continue, "Brother Xiahou Guang was angry at that time, saying that I was bragging, how could there be any 'Sister Yan', I must have made it up to be angry with him." I said yes, Sister Yan is a hundred times more beautiful than her! Brother Xiahou Guang raised his fist and was about to beat me, I also cried angrily at the time, and also said that he was talking nonsense......"
In the end, Zhao Yan understood that this matter was actually Cao Song's desire to make a move in order to compete for his beauty and his brother, who had been with him for ten years, and his heart was pounding. But after a few turns of thought, he settled down, and said secretly: I think that Xiahou Guang lover is out of Xi Shi, in his eyes his beloved wife must be the most beautiful person in the world, and in front of his wife, Song'er spoke like this, which made him so faceless, and he wanted to do it on the spur of the moment, which is understandable; I think that the woman must be beautiful and virtuous, and her appearance may not be ten times more beautiful than that woman, but Song'er and I have been together for a long time, so this is ......
Zhao Yan suddenly thought in her heart, "Song'er, isn't this a lover's eyes!" But as soon as he thought about it, he didn't dare to think about it anymore, and only said in his heart, "I only think Song'er is my brother!" Then he changed the topic and led Cao Song to say something funny, and his heart was calm.
Unconsciously a few days later, in the city of Luoyang, in the Chongzheng Hall of the North Palace of the Imperial Palace, Liu Zhizheng, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, reviewed the chapter alone, and there was not even a eunuch who served beside him. Since the Empress Dowager Liang returned to power in February, Liu Zhi has not been as leisurely as before, sometimes feeling tired and happy. Suddenly, Liu Zhi frowned, and saw that the excerpt for the requisition of funds due to floods and insect plagues had written a few numbers with a black pen, and snorted coldly, "Okay! Liang Ji even thought about the amount of disaster money to be collected for me! ”
It turned out that now the power of the DPRK and China is still in the hands of Liang Ji, and all important matters, such as the Xiqiang border troubles, disaster funds, and the impeachment of ministers, were first sent to Liang Ji, and he was allowed to use a black pen to approve and then send them to Liu Zhi, and only some irrelevant trivial matters were directly sent to Liu Zhi.
Liu Zhi was bored in his heart, and suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of him, and human nature appeared in a few breaths, it was the leader of the black armor people, Commander Cui, the emperor raised his head and said, "You are here, presumably the matter has been clarified." ”
Commander Na Cui arched his hand and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the minister has found out who is imprisoned in that tower and what Liang Ji has done with these people. ”
"Good!" Liu Zhi stood up from the table and came to Commander Cui's side, "Then report everything you have found out to me!" ”