The spring day is late, the trees are blooming, and the mid-mountain pavilion with warped eaves is like a lonely boat from which the flowers and trees stand up. Drive in the warm spring breeze among the verdant mountains.

The sound of the send-off at the foot of the mountain is inaudible, and the "ding" sound of the chess pieces hitting the chessboard is as crisp as the chirping of a chickadee.

Sima Daofu, the lord of Xin'an County, who was dressed in a white silk dress, stood on the chrysanthemum platform for a while, and saw that the players and chess spectators on the pavilion were focused on the chess game, and no one looked forward to her, so she couldn't help but be ashamed, and said to Sima Yu, the king of Huiji: "Father, I want to go to the pavilion to enjoy the scenery." Without waiting for Sima Yu to agree, he walked towards the pavilion with a snow-white dress in both hands.

Sima Yu couldn't stop him, so he had to follow.

Chen Caozhi glanced at Wang Xianzhi, who was watching chess next to him, and Wang Xianzhi was looking towards the lord of Xin'an. With just one glance, he turned around and concentrated on the chess game. The slender fingers flicked gently on the knee, as if playing the piano.

Jiang Sixuan, Chen Caozhi, and Wang Xianzhi bowed to Sima Yu, the king of Huiji, but did not speak.

Sima Daofu, the lord of Xin'an County, did not make a big fuss in the Mid-Mountain Pavilion, quietly stood on the side of the wonderful reward, looked at Chen Caozhi and Wang Xianzhi, and felt that the appearance of the two was like Chunlan Qiuju was good at winning, Chen Caozhi was handsome, Wang Xianzhi was beautiful, and said in his heart: "If these two people are husbands, there will be no regrets!" He thought again: "A woman can't marry a second son-in-law at once, Chen Caozhi and Wang Xianzhi can only choose one of them, who to choose?" "I have been greedy for a long time, and I can't make a decision.

At this moment, several fast horses galloped from the direction of Jiankang, inserted into the crowd of send-offs, and suddenly people were moved, and after a while, someone galloped up the mountain, but it was the secretary of the leading army in the middle, and urgently called: "The king—the king—"

Huan Mi is in such a hurry, there must be a big event. Sima Yuying, the king of Huiji, stepped down and asked, "Huan Junjun, what's the matter?" ”

Huan Mi said: "Taicheng urgently, the emperor has too much bait elixir, to the central committee, screaming angrily in the palace, the palace people are easy, don't dare to come close, please return to Taicheng to see." ”

Sima Yu sighed and asked, "Did you report to the Empress Dowager Chongde?" ”

Huan Mi said: "It is the Empress Dowager Chongde who ordered someone to invite King Huiji to return to Taicheng." ”

Sima Yu went up with Huan Mi, walked a few steps, remembered that his daughter Sima Daofu was still on the pavilion, and turned around and said, "Daofu, follow me down the mountain." ”

Sima Daofu asked with surprise and joy: "Father, then I won't go to Jingzhou for the time being, right?" ”

Sima Yu said: "Set off immediately." ”

Sima Daofu was disappointed and responded: "Okay, my daughter will leave for Jingzhou." His eyes swept over the faces of Chen Caozhi and Wang Xianzhi, and he slowly walked down the half-mountain pavilion.

Jiang Sixuan and Chen Caozhi have already pushed the table at this time, this chess can't be played, Jiang Sixuan is the general of the army, the emperor is crazy, he naturally wants to go to Taicheng throat, in case the emperor dies, he can't lag behind in supporting the new monarch.

Jiang Sixuan nodded to Chen Caoyi and said, "I'll continue this game another day." He strode down the half-mountain pavilion.

Chen Caozhi has no official position, so he doesn't need to go to Taicheng to wait, and he doesn't have to go down the mountain in a hurry. Emperor Sima Pi's bait poisoning was known to Chen Caozhi for a long time, which was due to the knowledge of his previous life, remembering that Sima Pi was sick after changing to Yuan Xingning. It took a year to die after the illness, and now it is the first year of Longhe, history has changed, and Sima Pi fell ill in advance!

Chen Cao packed up the chess pieces and thought at the same time: "Is it because of Lu Yuan's matter ** to the emperor Sima Pi, Sima Pi not only did not know how to be vigilant, but wanted to increase the dose of the three immortal pills, it seems that Sima Pi, the emperor, will not be able to do it for long-" Seeing that Wang Xianzhi was already sitting upright, he asked: "Brother Zijing also likes to play Go?" ”

Wang Xianzhi: "I don't know how to play Go." ”

Chen Caozhi was slightly surprised, and said in his heart: "If you don't know how to play Go, what are you looking at on the side!" ”

Wang Xianzhi turned his head and looked around, and said: "This place is very beautiful, Zuo Taichong's poem said, 'Zhenyi Qianrengang, full of thousands of miles', playing on this pavilion, extremely elegant." I don't know how to play Go, but it's interesting to listen to the sound of falling pieces. ”

Chen Caozhi smiled slightly and said: "Brother Zijing can be said to be happy to win and happy to lose, but also outside of chess. ”

The footnotes were fine and brisk, and Chen Caozhi turned his head to look. But he saw Sima Daofu, the lord of Xin'an County, go and return. Rushing in a hurry, a little panting, his chest rose and fell, he stood outside the pavilion, and pointed to Chen Caozhi: "You wait, I will marry you!" After that, he seemed to know that he was shy, his face was flushed, and he turned around and walked quickly down the mountain.

Chen Caozhi was stunned and hurriedly looked back at Wang Xianzhi. Wang Xianyi looked indifferent, smiling on his cheeks, just like watching chess before, the player tried his best, he only listened to the sound of the falling son, regardless of the victory or defeat, and experienced the fun-

Chen Caozhi stood up and looked up the mountain road. The lord of Xin'an was gone, the crowd under the mountain was divided into two, Xi and Gao Song did not return to Jiankang to visit the emperor's illness, they still went to the aunt, and the hundreds of officials who saw them off returned to the city one after another.

Chen Caozhi is really ridiculous, just now he is worried about Wang Xianzhi, sympathizes with Wang Xianzhi for self-mutilation of his feet to resist the marriage of the county lord of Xin'an, and pities Xi Daomao for the misery and loneliness of being forced to leave Wuyi Lane. Unexpectedly, Sima Daofu turned his spearhead at him, "You wait, I will marry you!" "What are these words, this tone is simply seeking revenge, as if it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years-

Chen Caozhi said: "How can this really be true, do I want to suffer on behalf of the king?" Although I can't bear Wang Xianzhi being forced to divorce Xi Daomao, but I am never so noble as to sacrifice my life, what does this Sima Daofu want to do, and force me to divorce Wei Rui and marry her in the future. There is no way, I am not a weak king. Wang Xianzhi and Xi Daomao's divorce is not only the pressure of the royal family, but also the pressure within the family, Xi Daomao's parents died, Xi ** after the decline of the Xi family, and the aunt Xi Xuan, who loved her, has also died, Xi Daomao was only forced to leave, but I am different from Wei Rui. 6 is the Jiangdong clan, the power in Jiangdong is not comparable to the Xi clan, and I will never have pressure from the family, as for the Xin'an county lord who wants to become the princess of Xin'an, it will have to wait for her father Sima Yu to become the emperor, and as long as Huan Ji does not conspire with his eldest brother Huan Xi in a vain attempt to get rid of his uncle Huan Chong, Huan Ji will not be exiled to Changsha, and Princess Xin'an will have no reason to divorce Huan Ji, because more than 20 years after Huan Wen's death, the Huan clan is still strong-" and thought: "But I have not married Wei Rui yet, and the three-year period has a long way to go." , don't Huan Ji be impatient to get rid of his uncle Huan Chong. He was exiled early, and then the lord of Sin'an was divorced. And I am not married, 6 years resolutely refused to let Wei Rui marry me, the king of Huiji Sima Yu said on the contrary, 'If this king still has a girl of appropriate age who also wants to accept Cao as a son-in-law', if Sima Daofu insists on marrying me after the divorce, it will really become a big trouble for me! ”

Wang Xianzhi saw Chen Caozhi frowning and thinking, so he comforted: "Brother Zizhong, don't worry, the lord of Xin'an is well-known for her words, she is married to Huan Zhongdao, how can she still marry you, it's just a joke." ”

Chen Caozhi really can't say it, but now he wants Wang Xianzhi to comfort him, the world is unpredictable, what about familiarizing yourself with "The World Speaks New Words". Who would have thought that the spearhead of the lord of Sinanjun would turn!

Chen Caozhi smiled and said, "The county lord of Xin'an may have recognized the wrong person. ”

Wang Xian was stunned and asked, "Who did you mistakenly identify?" ”

Chen Caozhi didn't answer, and said: "Brother Zijing, let Zunyi Shaogong Lanting Shiyun look up at the blue sky." Overlooking the waterfront. Liao Que has no end, and the metaphor is self-evident. Dazai makes chemical industry, and everything is uneven. Although the crowd is uneven, it is nothing more than a new 'true sentence', which is recited from time to time. He said to himself in his heart: "Chen Caozhi, time is running out, you have to work harder." ”

Chen Caozhi returned to Gu's mansion, Gu Kaizhi had already begun to paint "Jiangdong Sanjun Picture", and now the portraits of Gu Rong, 6 machines, and 6 clouds are available, Gu Kaizhi is familiar with figuring out, and wants to draw the charm of the characters.

In the evening, Gu Minzhi returned home from Taicheng. said that the emperor Sima Pi was stunned and couldn't see things, and hundreds of officials and talents invited the Empress Dowager Chongde Chu Garlic to come to the court again as regent.

The next day was the Qingming Festival, Chen Caozhi and the third brother Chen Shang took Xiaochan and Ran Sheng and others out of Qingxi Gate early in the morning, and went south to worship the ancestors of the Chen family in Qiantang.

Xiaochan remembered the kindness of her grandmother, and unconsciously burst into tears, and said, "Xiao Langjun." Youwei Niangzi, Zongzhi, and Run'er must also be paying tribute to their grandmother at this time, sweeping the tomb, and going out, they will also think of us, right? ”

Chen Caozhi looked south, and the clouds and mountains were vast. The feeling of homesickness is strong, and he gently recited: "——The fragrance is full of sleeves, and the road is far away." How expensive is the scriptures, but I feel goodbye to the time"

Ran Sheng asked, "Xiao Langjun, when will we go back to Qiantang?" ”

Chen Caozhi was silent for a long time and replied, "I don't know." ”

Ran Sheng said: "I ride a fast horse, travel 300 miles a day, and I can get home in five days." ”

Chen Caozhi nodded and said: "By the way, I also have to learn to ride a horse, and I have worked hard enough for piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Confucianism, Taoism and Xuanxuan, and it is at least a practical skill to learn." ”

Ran Shengxi said: "Xiao Langjun wants to learn to ride a horse, I can teach you, if Xiao Langjun really misses Young Grandmother Ding and Xiao Langjun of the Sect and Run'er Little Lady in the future, I will accompany Xiao Langjun to ride a horse and go back to visit, and it will only take ten days to go back and forth——"

Chen Shang smiled: "Is the sixteenth brother homesick?" Xiao Sheng said easily, Jiankang and Qiantang went back and forth for ten days, you think it is a rapid march, and people and horses can't bear it. ”

Ran Sheng said: "That's half a month at most." ”

Chen Caozhi said: "Xiao Sheng is right. If I miss my relatives, I will go back to my hometown to visit, Zhang Ji Yingyun's life is expensive, how can I detain thousands of miles to invite a famous man! For the sake of the family, my third brother and I can't stop running around, but in fact, reuniting with our relatives and never being separated is what I hope for the most. ”

Ran Sheng said: "But if Xiao Langjun stays in Chenjiawu all the time, we won't have so many fields, no shade households, and no Mingsheng Lake, and it will be difficult for Xiao Langjun to marry 6 little ladies to pass the door." ”

Chen Shang laughed and said, "Xiao Sheng can see it very clearly. To Chen Caozhi: "Why does the sixteenth brother say Xiao Suo? That Han Si perch is also after he is forty years old, and the sixteenth brother is in his prime, so he must not have the intention of concealment. ”

Chen Caozhi smiled and said, "Third brother, don't worry. I just miss my deceased mother and relatives in my hometown, and I just feel it, I am proud of being hidden, and I am advancing by retreating, and finally my ambition is also in the temple. ”