Chapter 43: Plum Blossom Paperweights (3)
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"Miss Tang didn't know that the king of Jiangling had set off from Jiangling to return to Beijing for the funeral on the orders of the emperor. According to our family, it is better for the young lady to go back to Chang'an with her little brother. It was inconvenient for Yu Chengen to directly ask Lai Xing'er about the reason for the two of them to return to Chang'an, so he first opened his mouth to persuade Yudao.
"Little Lord has returned to Chang'an?" Nayu's face changed slightly, and she lowered her head alone, as if she remembered something on her mind.
When Lai Xing'er heard the news, he was secretly happy in his heart: In this way, Nayu had to return to Chang'an with him. He had a heavy responsibility and had no intention of staying here longer, so he got up and begged Yu Chengen straight to the point: "Please prepare two fast horses for us, and let us return to Chang'an immediately." ”
Yu Chengen saw that he didn't explain anything to himself, and he was about to leave with his legs, so he refused to let him go easily, so he smiled and said, "Little brother, don't be anxious." Our family, Xiang and Wang, were ordered to move from the river to Jingzhou half a month ago, in order to prevent the invasion of Tibet. The little brother and Miss Tang rushed all the way back to Chang'an from Luocheng City, and it was expected that something had happened in the Tubo Dynasty, so could you first inform me of the Central Plains commission, so that I could take precautions. Moreover, our family saw that the two of them were not good-looking, and they must have tasted all the hardships along the way, and now that they have arrived in Jingzhou City, they have the right to let our family express their hearts a little, and do their best to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, and they can't delay the big thing after dinner. ”
After finishing speaking, he ordered someone to prepare a sumptuous banquet in the hall, and insisted that the two of them have eaten before leaving. He was reasonable, and Lai Xing'er and Na Yu had nothing to say, so they had to sit down with Yu Chengen and others.
Yu Chengen personally poured a bottle of wine for the two. He asked with concern, "When did you leave the city of Logos?" Have you suffered along the way? ”
Lai Xing'er understood that he still wanted to inquire about the news in the city. Pick up the bottle and drink it all. He raised his fingers and made a rough calculation, shook his head and replied, "What's the matter, it's been eleven or twelve days." The news of the death of the eldest princess of Changning reached the city of Luo, and the general Nasimo wanted to take the mission as a hostage, seeing that the marriage contract that had been concluded had been made into a bubble, in order to avoid the resumption of war between the two countries due to the failure of the peace and marriage, the two of us quietly went out of the city, and wanted to return to Chang'an to ask the emperor to choose another choice with his relatives and renew the marriage between the two countries. ”
Wang Huaizhen, who was sitting on Yu Chengen's right, suddenly interjected at this time: "It's strange that Lao Tzu led the troops to the south. The Tibetan barbarians attacked our two passes one after another. Originally, when they tested the reality of the Divine Crane Army, it turned out that Tubo Zampu couldn't marry the princess as his wife, and in a fit of anger, he wanted to turn his in-laws into enemies. ”
He is different from Xiang Zhifei, who was born in the imperial examination and abandoned literature and martial arts, he is an out-and-out military background, and he speaks without the slightest red tape and courtesy, and he hits the nail on the head.
"Hmm, I don't know if the little brother was sent by any of the adults in the mission to rush back to Chang'an to report the news?" As soon as the words came to Xing'er, Yu Chengen asked directly.
"He was in the city of Rakha, and he was pretending to be His Highness the King himself. Why should I be sent? Na Yu saw that Lai Xing'er was still hesitating, so she simply told him the truth.
"Lord Lin Shu. Lord Shang Jing, Brother Qian, and more than a hundred or so brothers from the mission, all of them were trapped in the city, and their lives were uncertain. Lai Xing'er said and stood up again, "If I return to Chang'an to meet the emperor one day earlier, they will have more hope of escaping and surviving." Now that I've drunk the wine, please allow us to go. ”
Yu Chengen heard Na Yu say that Xing'er had pretended to be the king of harmony as early as when he was in the city, and he couldn't help but look at the little eunuch in front of him, and saw that he insisted on leaving, so he instructed the servants who were waiting on the side: "Tell someone to go to the stable and pick three fast horses to wait outside the gate of the house, remember, bring the little white dragon too." Take some pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and we will immediately draft a fold. ”
After the subordinates obeyed the order and retreated, Yu Chengenfang turned his head and persuaded Xing'er with a smile: "Little brother, wait a while, wait for me to write a recital, and send the lieutenant colonel to return to Beijing with you and present it to the emperor." Zhifei and Huaizhen, the little brother is on a mission in Yanying Palace, and the future is limitless, why don't you two take this opportunity to get closer to him? ”
Xiang and Wang both showed great interest in Lai Xing'er as a good king and Jin saw Tubo Zampu, and when they heard Yu Chengen say this, they got up and toasted Lai Xing'er, taking the opportunity to inquire about the details. Lai Xing'er saw that Yu Chengen agreed to let him go, and he was happy for a while, and couldn't help but drink a few more bottles, and when Nayu got up and wanted to stop him, he already had six or seven points of alcohol.
Seeing at a glance that Yu Chengen was still lying in front of the bookcase in a corner of the hall, brushing and drafting the recital, Lai Xing'er struggled to stand up, and pushed Xiang and Wang to say that it was convenient and convenient to go to the Dongsi (toilet) outside the hall, and staggered to the front of the bookcase, leaned forward with both hands and said to Chengen: "If the adult is too trustworthy, you can hand over the recital to me and forward it to the emperor, so you don't have to bother others anymore." As he spoke, he burped heavily, and couldn't help but hang his head to slow down the strength of his drink.
Suddenly, a small but delicate copper paperweight on one side of the bookcase caught his attention.
"Plum blossom ......" Lai Xing'er muttered, not caring about rudeness, he actually reached out and picked up the paperweight, put it in his palm, approached his eyes, and looked up.
As soon as Lai Xing'er walked in front of him, Yu Chengen smelled a strong smell of wine, he only said that Lai Xing'er was drunk, and he didn't think that his somewhat abnormal behavior was strange, and he still lay on the desk without raising his head.
"Who said that the queen of chrysanthemums has no color, and Yuxue brought a wisp of incense."
Lai Xing'er recited the two lines of poetry engraved on the copper paperweight engraved with plum blossom patterns in his palm, and couldn't help but burst into tears, and asked Yu Chengen with a choked voice: "My lord, where did you get this paperweight?" ”
Yu Chengen heard Lai Xing'er's crying question, so he put down the pen in his hand, looked up at Lai Xing'er in surprise, and replied inexplicably: "The things that the old people gave each other in the past, our family loves his Yongmei's poems, so we play with them on the desk from time to time." Why, little brother, do you know this? ”
"A gift from the deceased? Please forgive me for taking the liberty of daring to ask if this old man is a man or a woman? ”
Yu Chengen saw that Lai Xing'er was extremely eager to ask, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he exclaimed: "Could it be that you are actually a junior who came to Shenxing?" We should have thought of it a long time ago. ”
With tears in her eyes, Lai Xing'er nodded vigorously: "Lai Shenxing is the name of the late father, because the name of the family has a 'plum' in the name, and these two poems were written by the late father to give the family ci." The little heart is puzzled, why is the thing that the father gave to Jiaci to play in the study room put on the desk of the adult? (To be continued.) )