Chapter Twenty-Three: People Go
For Zhao Xin, Zhu Shuzhen also had several relationships with him, accompanied the prince to visit the garden at night in the post station, and it was Zhao Xin who was ordered to rescue her and take her away on the night of Shangyuan, and I still have an impression of it, but my mind at that time was on the prince, I only remember that his face was beautiful, soft-spoken, more feminine, but decisive and daring, she had no bad feelings towards it, but why did she run away suddenly, which made her very curious, and she was even more puzzled by the rumors. k update
"Alas, it's hard to say, she has been by the prince's side since she was very young, taking care of the prince's daily life, she is the most trusted person by the prince, she may also have a hard time running away!" Seeing that Xi didn't want to explain in a few words, he said in his heart that it wasn't because of your arrival that he forced her away, otherwise how could the prince be so sad.
"But how did I hear that he had something difficult to say to the prince, and he was forced to flee when the matter was revealed!" Although Zhu Shuzhen felt a little unspeakable, she still wanted to understand the matter.
"Nonsense, who slandered Zhao Xin, he is tired and crooked, let me find out if you have to peel his skin and pull out his tongue in the oil pot!" Seeing that he heard it, he immediately became angry, and said viciously, the nurse behind the princess didn't dare to raise her head at the moment, she trembled, and the faces of the two accompanying maids also changed several times.
"Princess, you'd better not mention this kind of rumor to the prince and others, Zhao Xin is like a relative in the heart of the prince, and the prince's guard camp has always been in charge of him, whether it is in the palace or in the army, he has received a lot of favors, and he is known for his prestige. And the prince was even more distressed about his departure, and even cut off his fingers, if this kind of rumor entered the ears of the prince, it would definitely cause a storm. It made the house uneasy. Although the villain is rude like this, it is also for the good of the princess! Seeing Xi couldn't help but get angry when he heard it, but he saw that several people were frightened and felt out of shape. Quickly explained.
"Why is this garden so simple compared to the rest of the house, and it is not repaired?" Entering the backyard, Zhu Shuzhen found that there were few decorations here, and couldn't help but ask.
"This plum garden is built in imitation of the winter garden of the old mansion of Xiangyi, which is where the prince grew up. The prince is very nostalgic for the old, after the prince entered Beijing, the emperor ordered to build a new mansion for the prince, and the queen mother ordered someone to imitate this plum garden in order to make the prince feel at ease. Every grass and tree is the same. Jianxi pointed to the things in the garden and said.
"Then the prince also likes to live here the most?" Although Zhu Shuzhen understood, she still asked.
"Yes, princess, the prince has a ceremony. The office and living are all here, and the other gardens are only for an occasional stay! Jianxi replied truthfully.
"Since it is the place where the prince lives for a long time, why are there so few people who serve the prince?" Zhu Shuzhen looked at the only few small yellow doors and half-old cooks in the backyard, frowned and said dissatisfied.
"Princess, the prince likes to be quiet. Since he was a child, he didn't want others to serve him, so he was in charge of it himself, and later there were many things, so only Zhao Xin helped take care of it. Even the small ones can't intervene, and these little yellow doors are only responsible for sprinkling and sweeping in the yard. Do some rough work, you don't need many people! Jianxi said.
"Mama Zhu. You pack up my things, and today I will also move to live in the plum garden and serve the prince! Zhu Shuzhen thought about it and said, Zhu's mother hurriedly agreed, but she didn't believe in Jianxi's words in her heart, how could anyone not like to be served, the one from a big family was not a person who came to reach out for food to open his mouth, it must be that these people were lazy and bullied his aunt's good heart, so these words were prevaricating.
"Princess, you better ask the prince, this garden is no better than other places, lest the prince dislike it!" There are many unknown secrets of the prince hidden in the plum garden, and he didn't dare to make his own decisions when he saw Xi, so he hurriedly said.
Zhu Shuzhen also understood some of the rules of the mansion at this time, at least he knew the authority of the prince in the mansion, and no one dared to disobey him, including himself, when he heard Xi say this, he knew that he really couldn't be the master, and he didn't mention it anymore. …,
Zhu Shuzhen stepped into the prince's study, giving her the feeling that this was really a study, several rows of bookshelves were full of people, but the most eye-catching thing was the two big characters of the prince's handwriting on the wall - struggle, and the momentum covered the emperor's handwriting. She stepped forward to take a look at it casually, in addition to the common books such as scripture and history and the art of war, all kinds of miscellaneous collections accounted for most of them, Zhu Shuzhen casually took out a travelogue of the former dynasty and opened it, and found that the book was not only outlined and drawn, but also full of annotations, obviously read it carefully.
"Have you read all these books?" Zhu Shuzhen looked at it and asked.
"Yes, the prince has been reading since he was six years old, and he has not been embellished so far, even if he is out of battle, he never leaves his books, and the bookshelves you look at are all read by the prince before he was eight years old!" Miki said proudly, as if he were talking about himself.
"The prince started reading these books at the age of six, and he finished reading so many books at the age of eight!" Zhu Shuzhen was a little unconvinced, and took out another agricultural book about mulberry fields and crops, "The prince read these agricultural books when he was a child, didn't he collect them?" ”
"Princess, yes, the prince was in the old mansion of Xiangyi at that time, and in order to run Zhuangzi well, he read a lot of books on agriculture and water conservancy, and the subset only looked at it occasionally!" Miki said.
"The subset is only seen occasionally, why is that?" Zhu Shuzhen wondered, the subset is an introductory book for readers, and it is really strange that the prince did not read these when he was young, but read miscellaneous books.
"Hehe, those books are for those pedants, and it is useless to read too much!" Jianxi smiled, "I tell you, princess, don't tell the prince, he only watches these subsets when he can't sleep!" ”
"For what, why do you watch it when you can't sleep?" Zhu Shuzhen thought for a while.
"Because the prince wants to sleep when he reads these books!" Seeing the joy of holding back a smile.
"Poof!" Zhu Shuzhen couldn't help laughing, "The prince used the words of these saints as a tranquilizer, he can think of it!" "The prince hasn't come yet, he can only be accompanied by Jianxi, think about Zhao Xin sneaking away, abandoning the prince, he was aggrieved and vomited blood, but he was also aggrieved, although he knew that the prince had no interest in the one in front of him, but he also knew that if the prince was unhappy one day and ran to find Zhao Xin, the princess was now snubbed and ran to the mother to complain, then the consequences would be even more serious, he had to find a way to stabilize the two, at least they could get along well, and now they could only bluff the princess and persuade the princess to be soft and hard. Is it easy for the sake of the couple to be a slave themselves!
"Since parting, the heart is hard to give up, when will a little lovesickness be gone? With the sleeves of the poplar snow. The brook is sloping, the mountains are covered, and people go. Zhu Shuzhen suddenly found that there was a letterhead on the table and wrote the first word, and couldn't help but read it out loud, this poem is natural and simple, but it is gentle and soft, full of poetry and picturesqueness, and it has a long charm to read.
Zhu Shuzhen seemed to see the prince standing by the stream, watching his friends walk along the stream, gradually moving away, but the creek twisted and turned, and the mountains overlapped and blocked, blocking his sight, and finally he couldn't see the distant figure, and he could only condense the deep feelings of parting in the heart-rending sigh of 'people go'.
"Lord Wang, you're back!" Just as Zhu Shuzhen was intoxicated with the meaning of the words, she suddenly heard footsteps, she quickly wiped the two lines of tears from the corners of her eyes and saluted, and the prince in front of her was even more haggard and thin than a few days ago, just like the person in the words walked out.
"What's wrong with you, what are you crying about?" Zhao Ta asked in wonder, he hadn't said a word, and he hadn't provoked her at all!
"The prince is sick, why don't you tell the concubine, I will also serve medicine before bed!" Zhu Shuzhen hugged the prince and said.
"Where is the disease, it's just that there have been too many things lately, and I'm a little tired, and you think about it too much." Zhao Ta was a little at a loss for her affectionate behavior, and pulled out of Zhu Shuzhen's arms. …,
"The prince works so hard every day, and the chief of the guard Zhao has no news, and there is no one to take care of him, so let the concubine move over to serve the prince!" Zhu Shuzhen said timidly.
"No need, wait until I'm done dealing with the things in front of me, just take care of it by my side now." Zhao Ta shook his head and said.
"Then please take care of your body, rest early, and retire as a concubine!" Zhu Shuzhen held back her tears and gave a salute.
"Let's go after dinner!" Zhao Ta looked at Zhu Shuzhen's pitiful appearance, and said softly in his heart, at this time, he still couldn't accept this wife who only had a few faces, but this was also fate, God sent her to him, could it be that although she changed her husband, she could only end up depressed and unable to escape her fate? Zhao Ta looked at Zhu Shuzhen steadily, and suddenly thought...
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The bright moon hangs high, and the silent valley still gallops on a light horse in the valley road between the mountains. Turning a col, a forest appeared in front of him, the knight slowed down his horse, hesitated, as the old saying goes, 'don't enter the forest', but he must cross the border line at night when the defenders are lax, and if you want to make a detour, you need to walk dozens of miles more, and then it will be dawn. Thinking of this, he urged his horse forward, intending to pass through the forest as soon as possible.
The sound of the horse's hooves spread far in the forest, the knight on the horse was vigilant and surrounded by a large number of people, the moonlight was sprinkled on the road through the branches and leaves, and suddenly he slammed the horse's belly, and squeezed the reins, and the horse jumped into the air, jumping over a tripwire, but in front of him there was a "snap, snap" and a few tripwires were connected and bounced, even though the knight was superb in riding, and sitting down was also a divine horse, but there was nothing he could do, he could only turn the horse's head, his body was low, and he rushed into the dense forest in an oblique thorn.
Seeing the knight rushing into the forest, the attackers who were ambushed in the forest still didn't seem to want to let him go, and with a whistle, more than a dozen black-clothed people jumped out of the trees and grass, scattered in groups of twos and twos, covered each other, and then chased after each other.
The densely planted trees on the border of the Great Song Dynasty were to block the southward invasion of the cavalry of the Liao State, and the war horses could not run at all when they turned left and right in the forest, and the continuous shooting of the attackers also made him have to zigzag to avoid the flying bullets.
"Did you come to kill me on the orders of the prince?" Seeing that the woods in front of him were more luxuriant and the march was more difficult, and the attackers were getting closer and closer, he simply reined in his horse and shouted into the woods... (To be continued......)