Wang Yu stood under the porch, looking at the lights on the small building in the backyard, listening to the sound of Ding Ding Dongdong's piano, and was very satisfied. He shouted upstairs: "Achu, don't be too tired, rest early." ”

"Awn, I see." Wang Chu's voice came down from upstairs, "I'll play it again, tune this tone right and go to sleep." ”

"Uh-huh." Wang Yu answered, shook his head lovingly, and walked towards the main courtyard with three points of triumph. After talking to Liu Xiu last time, everything was on the right track, although the dark cloud did not completely disperse, and it still floated in his heart from time to time, but most of the time, his heart was clear. He believed that as long as his daughter entered the palace, she would soon stand out with her appearance and talent. Empress Song is a wooden man, she is not favored at all, and she has a mortal enmity with the eunuchs, and it is only a matter of time before she is deposed. Although the butcher girl was favored, she had not been able to give birth to a son and a half daughter until now, and she still had a long way to go if she wanted to become a queen. He specially asked Xiangshi to meet his daughter, and Xiangshi said that his daughter has a noble appearance and will definitely be able to give birth to a son in the future, and the son is unspeakably expensive.

This is definitely good news, the only bad thing is that the Xiangshi said that although Achu's son is unspeakably expensive, Achu himself is a hard-working person, and after finishing speaking, he shook his head again and again, looking like a heavenly secret cannot be leaked. Wang Yu paid twice the amount of money, but the minister refused to say.

As soon as he thought of this, Wang Yu was a little uneasy, he didn't know if it was because his daughter was captured by the Xianbei people, although Liu Xiu swore that he would not say it, but who knew whether he was true or false, even if he didn't say it now, he couldn't guarantee that he would never say it in the future, and even if he didn't say it, he couldn't guarantee that others wouldn't say it.

If this is the case, then Achu will really jump into the fire pit when he enters the palace.

Wang Yu sighed and walked into his father Wang Bao's room. Wang Bao leaned motionless on the couch, if it weren't for the white eyebrows that trembled from time to time, Wang Yu was really worried that he was gone. As soon as he thought of this thought, Wang Yu felt very ashamed, but he always involuntarily came up with this thought. For his father, it is a mountain, a mountain higher than Beibi Mountain, the same as the Taihang Mountain in his hometown, which not only makes him feel unattainable, but also makes him feel depressed.

has been stumbling for half his life, and he is just a little Sima, which makes Wang Yu very inferior in front of his father.

"Father, rest early." Wang Yu walked over and stood beside the bed and said softly.

Wang Bao replied without moving, was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "What kind of song is this, why does it sound so serious?" ”

"It is an ancient song played during the Great Pheasant, and it is said to be a remnant score from the lost Book of Music." Wang Yu replied softly, "It's been a few months of drought, and seeing that spring plowing is about to be delayed, the palace is very anxious, and has convened the three princes and nine secretaries several times, saying that they will prepare for the big pheasant to pray for rain." Therefore, I asked someone to invite this ancient song, hoping that it will be used when the time comes. ”

Wang Bao's eyes suddenly opened: "Who are you trusting?" ”

Being looked at by him like this, Wang Yu suddenly felt a little out of breath, hesitated for a moment, and still said the truth: "Liu Xiu, he asked for it from Cai Bojiao." ”

"Really?" Wang Bao replied casually, moved, and lay down. Wang Yu leveled the quilt for him, blew the bedside lamp, and was about to walk away, Wang Bao said again: "Don't have more contact with that kid, I always feel that he is not a person who gives up so easily, he seems to be loyal, but in fact he is a thief, don't accidentally fall for him again." ”

Wang Yu was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to speak, Wang Bao said again: "I just heard a news today, not only did the palace not blame him for beating Shangguan, but instead gave him a favor outside the law and asked him to enter the palace again. In order to appease him, he also added Yulu, but he still didn't go. I didn't go to pour it, but recommended a few people to enter the palace. I don't know what he wanted from the Queen Mother, but he actually approved it, and let Lu Zhi's wife go to the palace. ”

Wang Yu was taken aback, and then his face turned red again, his father had not gone out for a long time, and he was still very well-informed, he presided over the affairs of the family, but he didn't even hear a little rumor, and those people in the family still only had his father in their eyes, not him.

Liu Xiu is so favored, so is it a bit too much for him to treat him so much?

"Don't worry too much about it." Wang Bao said vaguely: "A few young officials are just some ordinary courtiers, if you want to fill the vacancy, I don't know what year you have to wait." ”

"Father is right." Wang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that she was a little too nervous. Wang Bao didn't speak again, and soon snored, Wang Yu didn't know if he was really asleep or asleep, but he knew that he should go, so he walked out lightly and closed the door. He glanced in the direction of the small building, saw that the light had stopped, shook his head with a smile, and walked towards his room.

As he walked, he muttered: "This ancient song is really ugly, no wonder it will be lost." ”

Wang Chu was lying on the bed, but her eyes were wide open, she pinched the quilt and pricked up her ears to listen to the sounds outside.

"Tuk Tuk ...... Tuk Tuk ...... Tuk Tuk Tuk ......" A few inaudible soft sounds, but like thunder, knocked on Wang Chu's heart, she hesitated for a moment, and looked nervously at the tightly closed window.

"Tuk Tuk ...... Tuk Tuk ...... Tuk tuk tuk ......" the voice sounded again with some stubbornness.

Wang Chu pursed her lips vigorously, barefoot, and got up lightly, she had a lot of clothes on her body, but she still felt uneasy, and turned around to pick up a piece of clothing and put it on her body, then she tiptoed to the window, reached out and touched the latch, but it was not opened.

It was quiet outside, and there was no sound at all. But Wang Chu knew that that person must still be there. She wanted to open the window, but she didn't know how to face the affectionate and somewhat rude man after opening it, she hesitated, and her heart beat like a drum.

"If I don't open it again, I'll kick it with my foot." Liu Xiu's somewhat arrogant voice sounded outside.

"Don't!" Wang Chu hurriedly opened the window, revealing Liu Xiu's grinning face, Wang Chu's face was red and his heart was beating, and he said ashamedly: "You...... You can't come in. ”

"I know, I'm not going in." Liu Xiu scratched his head in distress, but did not insist. If it had been in the previous life, both parties had expressed their intentions, and they would have started rolling the sheets a long time ago, and they would still have to play this old drama of talking at night through the window, I really don't know whether to be happy that I got rid of the original beast surname or to be angry Wang Chu Taili's surname.

"Why are you here so late today?" Wang Chu hid in the window, leaned his back against the wall, and asked softly.

Liu Xiu smiled and told him about entering the palace today. Zhang and Lu Shen were overly excited, and although they were so tired that they couldn't sleep when they went home, they couldn't sleep for a long time, so it was almost midnight for him to gallop dozens of miles here. Fortunately, the Queen Mother allowed Lu Shen and the others not to live in the palace, they could go back to live in the clouds every day, otherwise he would not dare to come out if the Zhang family was alone.

"Since it's late, let's go to bed early."

"I'm so happy I can't sleep." Liu Xiu knew that he would definitely not be able to see Wang Chu's face, so he leaned his back against the wall, looked at the full moon hanging in the middle of the sky, and exhaled softly: "As soon as I received the edict yesterday, I wanted to tell you, but those guys were all as excited as mice, and I really couldn't leave." ”

Wang Chu imagined how happy Liu Bei and the others were when they received the edict, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and laughed silently, and after a while, she said softly: "Why don't you be a lang yourself." ”

"I'm a wolf now." Liu Xiu laughed: "I am a lone wolf under the moon, thousands of miles away, chasing from the grassland all the way here." ”

Wang Chu laughed shyly, but she didn't know how to answer Liu Xiu's clever and heart-pounding words, she could only be silent, covering her beating heart with one hand and covering her mouth with the other, for fear that she would say something she didn't dare to say or shouldn't say.

Liu Xiu saw that there was no reaction in the room, and he was a little bored, so he had to cough lightly and explain softly: "I am nineteen this year, and you have also reached the marriageable age, if you can't enter the palace this time, your father will definitely find another famous family for you as soon as possible." Even if I start to be a Lang official now, what year will I be able to fill the vacancy, and how can I be able to do 2,000 stones? Without 2,000 stones, your father would have married you to a prisoner rather than me. ”

Hearing this, the smile on Wang Chu's face immediately disappeared, and she had already thought of this problem. Even if Liu Xiu's method is easy to use, if she loses the election in August and can't enter the palace, her father will not marry her to Liu Xiu, a person who does not have any official status. Even if it is not two thousand stones, at least it is a child of a family who has a chance to do two thousand stones, no matter from which point of view, Liu Xiu seems to be impossible. Even if Liu Xiu becomes a Lang official now, if he wants to wait to fill the vacancy, it will take at least ten years to go, which is already smooth.

Decade? It's unlikely that she'll want to wait a year. The eldest father Wang Bao's body is not as good as day by day, and he still wants to see the Wang family have a bright future before he dies. Liu Xiu boasted about Haikou, saying that in addition to the queen's position, he could get all the glory and wealth that the Wang family wanted, which sounded very heroic at the time, but after thinking about it, this was simply a big talk.

He doesn't know where his own glory and wealth are, and he still wants to fight for the Wang family?

As soon as she thought of this, Wang Chu was full of sadness, and she could hear from Liu Xiu's words that Liu Xiu's pressure was also very high.

"And what are you going to do?"

"Don't worry, I'm fighting for it step by step, and it's going well." Liu Xiu said softly.

Although Wang Chu knew that he was comforting himself, his heart was still sweet, and he was relieved a lot, feeling that there was a mountain in front of him, and Liu Xiu could fly over with her on his back, even if it was a vast sea in front of him, Liu Xiu could carry her on his back and ride the waves. As long as there is this man who is only separated by a wall from himself, any difficulty can be overcome. Wang Chu raised his head, leaned his head lightly against the wall, as if leaning on Liu Xiu's shoulder, and whispered, "Thank you for your hard work." ”

"It's not hard." Liu Xiu grinned, he seemed to feel Wang Chu's movements, and also raised his head, leaned against the wall, looking up at the disc-like moon, but there was a little more melancholy in his eyes.

Today, Huo Yu took him around the palace, especially when he climbed the tallest building in the palace, the door view of the Vermilion Bird Gate of the North Palace. Of course, he knew that Huo Yu had taken him to that place, not just because he had called her eldest sister, she was showing others her closeness to him, and at the same time showing him her status in the palace. Liu Xiu didn't care about this, what he cared about was the landscape he saw.

Standing on the view, Luoyang City has an unobstructed view of the outside of the city, which is completely different from the feeling of standing on the small building of Cao Ying's house and looking at Luoyang City through the tall city wall.

I can't sit back and watch such a great city burned, I can't watch so many people tossing and wailing in the flames of war, since God let me come and gave me such a good opportunity, I can't just fight for my own safety, I must do something, do something for this city, for these people.

On the look, he was full of pride, but when he returned below, all the pride turned into pressure, and it was heavy in his heart. He looked at the officials who passed by from time to time, looked at the palace maids and eunuchs who were nervous when he saw Huo Yu, and thought that they hadn't made a fortune for more than half a year, and he felt that he had hit an indestructible wall.

Is it really necessary for a court that can't even send out officials' salaries to exist, and can it really come back to life?

He later asked Jia Xu this question vaguely, and Jia Xu was silent for a long time, and finally shook his head: "It depends on the will of God!" ”

He felt that Jia Xu was very realistic. Although his understanding of the situation of the Han is still limited, but from the understanding of the situation, in fact, the decline of the Han has been irreversible, although the Yellow Turban Uprising does not know which year it will break out, but it will definitely break out, there is no Zhang Jiao, there will be other people, in fact, in the past few decades, the situation in the country has further deteriorated, natural disasters have followed, more and more displaced people, the number and scale of uprisings in various places have been constantly expanding, who knows if there will be a Wang Jiao, Li Jiao.

If he wants to be prosperous and rich, if he wants to save the big man, he has to jump on this fast-sinking ship, he not only has to find a way to plug the gap, but also has to face countless drunk and dreamy passengers, and he has to face countless people who desperately want to grab the biggest board for their immediate selfish interests, and he has to face not one or two people, but countless people.

Is he ready? He didn't think so, he wasn't even sure if he could marry Wang Chu smoothly, and what qualifications did he have to say that he would be able to save this sinking ship? According to the current ideal state, he will either take advantage of the fact that the ship has not yet sunk and change to another boat first, or grab a lifeboat, and then grab as many boat boards as possible, and start preparing for the melee after the sinking of the big ship in advance, so as to gain a chance for himself to rebuild a boat, and now this ship, let him sink.

The first method is very simple, as long as you marry Wang Chu and then find an opportunity to go to sea, although the difficulty is there, at least it is not completely impossible, and the second method is relatively much more complicated, and the risk is unimaginably large. Yuan Shao, the fourth and third dukes, was defeated, and Cao Ying had such a family background and experienced nine deaths and a lifetime, so what qualifications did he have to fantasize about getting a piece of the pie? Yes, Liu Bei's situation was worse than him, and he succeeded in the end, but there were countless accidental factors in it, and becoming Liu Bei's possible surname was far smaller than the possible surname of Lu Bu and Yuan Shu, which was also a crazy decision.

Liu Xiu was very depressed, although he couldn't see it on his face, he was almost suffocated in his heart, so he didn't sleep in the middle of the night, and ran over the wall to talk to Wang Chu. Wang Chu is his biggest gain in this world, and it is also what he desires the most, looking at her can give him the courage to meet the choice that makes him feel crazy.

"I need a little encouragement." He said with a sigh.

Wang Chu listened quietly, and from Liu Xiu's somewhat chaotic narration, she felt Liu Xiu's hesitation behind the responsibility, and she felt both proud and worried. Although Liu Xiu is just a cloth coat, he has to pick up that unimaginably heavy burden, his courage is admirable, but also makes people feel crazy.

He needs my encouragement, and with my encouragement, he will dare to face all challenges and take on the important task of saving the Han Dynasty and saving countless Li people.

Wang Chu has read more Confucian classics than Liu Xiu, and the complex of taking the world as his responsibility is deeper than Liu Xiu, it can be said that he is naïve or stubborn, and his stubborn idea of salvation is more natural than Liu Xiu, she didn't even hesitate too much, and said firmly:

"Ah Xiu, you are good, I support you."

"Isn't it a bit insincere to say such an important thing without looking me in the eye?" Liu Xiu turned around and stood in front of the window. Wang Chu hesitated for a moment, then walked out from behind the window, and looked at Liu Xiu bravely, although his eyes were a little shy and a little evasive, but they were extremely firm, and Liu Xiu was stunned for a moment, and he was a little ashamed.

"This ...... Not practical? Liu Xiu squeezed his eyes and said with a wicked smile.

"To ...... How practical. Wang Chu blushed suddenly, retreated and hid behind the window, and said in a trembling voice: "You...... You said you wouldn't mess around, so I saw you. ”

"A little, a little, how?" Liu Xiu pinched his hand and indicated, and said with a dead face: "Just go down, I'll leave immediately, starting tomorrow, no, from now on, go up to the knife mountain, go down to the sea of fire, do your best for the people in the world, and die." ”

"Phew!" Seeing that he began to talk nonsense again, Wang Chu couldn't help but take a few mouthfuls, stretched out his hand to block Liu Xiu's mouth, and showed a half blushing face from behind the window: "You are not allowed to talk nonsense, I want you to live well, be loyal to the country, be filial to your family, be a good courtier, and be a good son......"

Wang Chu opened his mouth, and the last words couldn't go on, Liu Xiu held her hand and kissed her gently: "I want to be your good husband, give birth to a group of children, and be their good father." ”

Wang Chu blushed and gently twitched his hand, but he couldn't pull it away. She bravely raised her head, looked at Liu Xiu, and said softly: "If you are responsible, you are a good man." You let it go, the sword mountain and the sea of fire, and you will live and die with you. After speaking, he stood on tiptoe and touched Liu Xiu's forehead lightly, and then after Liu Xiu reacted, he quickly closed the window, no matter how much Liu Xiu begged, he refused to open it again.

(To be continued)