After entering the wax moon, the north is already a land of ice and snow, and Jinling City, located in the south of the Yangtze River, has also had two snowfalls, although it is not as cold as the north, but it is not warm, so that Sima Yi has been cowering in his courtyard for half a month and does not go out, except that someone will bring the necessary food on weekdays, and someone will come to cook and boil water for him at dusk every day, and he can't see anyone, and he looks a little lonely after Li Fangwei left.

"Xiangye, Your Majesty has orders, if you feel that it is too dull here, you might as well go outside for a walk, there will be someone secretly protecting Xiangye's safety."

Sima Yuan's life and death was still a secret in the Southern Dynasty, and even Xiao Ling didn't know whether Sima Qi was alive or dead, Xiao Zhan placed Sima Qi in the small courtyard, saying that he wanted to protect Sima Qi's safety, but in fact, he also wanted Sima Qi to completely separate from King Hui's forces. For Xiao Ling, although Sima Yi was a former friend and the first hero to assist him in monopolizing power, but now he already feels that Sima Yu is a dispensable person, so why not be a favor and push Sima Yu to Xiao Zhan, anyway, he also knows that Sima Yu has always wanted to be Xiao Zhan's husband in his heart.

But in this way, Xiao Ling doesn't even have anyone around him who really does things for him, which is tantamount to trapping himself in a lonely situation.

Sima Yi didn't have to curl himself up, so that he himself felt a little bored and bored, Xiao Zhan was worried about his safety so that he stayed in the small courtyard so as not to be known that he was not dead, Sima Yu really went out and had nothing to do. Just after Xiao Zhan's cronies sent to deliver rice and grain said this, he handed a letter to Sima Yu, Sima Yi opened the letter and read it, but it was a letter written by Li Shanye to him to say goodbye, he has never had the opportunity to see Li Shanye again after returning to Jinling City, and even Li Shanye's whereabouts are not very clear.

"The one who gives you letters. Where is it now? Sima asked.

The man was a little nervous, and said, "Back to the right minister, the letter was handed over by His Majesty to the small one, and it is not clear where the small one is." However, Your Majesty has confessed that as long as you have the heart to look for it, you should be able to find the subject of this letter. Nothing else is clear. ”

Sima Yi nodded at this time, Li Shanye has always done things strangely, he is the kind of unfathomable person in the rivers and lakes, judging from Sima Yi's previous understanding of him, this person not only has the courage to have the world in mind, but also has martial arts and knowledge is very good. It was also through Li Shanye's point that he gradually understood the situation of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Neither he nor Li Shanye would admit this.

"Okay, you go back and resume your life, saying that you don't need Your Majesty to worry too much about it, and you will take care of yourself." Sima said to the man.

"Yes, yes. The villain is back. ”

waited for the puppet, Sima borrowed to clean up his mood. He took Li Shanye's letter, which was actually a dumb riddle, asking him to guess where Li Shanye would choose to meet him. In the past, most of the two met in chess clubs or teahouses and taverns, but in those places they seemed too public. In addition, there are too many places to go, and it takes him a lot of time to find them one by one, which shows that Li Shanye's dumb riddle is not so superficial. Sima Yu was thinking about the place where the two had met more memorabilially in the past, but he still didn't have a clue.

"I still don't use my brain often, and it's all rusty." Sima couldn't help but laugh at himself, and finally he decided to get dressed and leave the small courtyard to walk outside. Even if you can't think of it, it's better to go to the bustling and lively place of Jinling City than to be bored alone in this small courtyard.

There was no retinue, not even a servant, and Sima Yi did not leave a book. In fact, except for Xiao Zhan and her cronies, no one else will know about his affairs in the small courtyard. Sima Yi walked out of the door, touched his pocket, and remembered that he didn't bring any silver, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't seem to have any silver, when he first arrived in Xu Ding, Li Fangwei gave him some, and he returned it intact.

However, it is difficult to go out for a thousand days at home, and if you don't have some silver, you can only walk casually, and you can't even find a teahouse to rest when you are tired, but you can touch the lining of your coat, but there is a fan, and the fan is not bad, but the outside temperature is very low in winter, and how to take a fan out has a bit of an unruly madman's taste, even Sima Yi can't help but laugh at himself, so he had to put the fan back into his arms.

Carefully identify the door of the house, so as not to find the way back when you come back, Sima Yi's preparations before going out are still very sufficient. Not far from the house, I realized that it was already sunset, if I could come back early, I would not miss the meal, if I couldn't come back in time, I might have to eat a cold meal. But he didn't really care about that.

When he arrived on the street, he really appreciated the prosperity of the Jiangnan capital.

This is different from Luoyang in the north, but also different from Jiangling, the Qi Dynasty has been in the south of the Yangtze River for too long, and the people have almost forgotten what the war is, even if there is chaos and strife in the court, but the disaster is not enough for the people, even Xie Rumo and Zhu Tongjing and others attacked each other, and only calmed down the incident in a few days, and the people lived as usual afterwards, and the shops were not affected as usual. Even if it is now a deep winter, there is still snow in Jinling City, but the people are still bustling and lively.

Sima borrowed from walking on the road, but felt out of place with the surrounding pattern, he would not boast of being high, he thought he was an ordinary person, but at the moment he really couldn't be called an ordinary person, he was still the right minister appointed by the Southern Dynasty, even after he "disappeared", Xiao Zhan never removed his position as the right minister. But he is in a high position, but he is not in the court, and his heart feels like a lonely soul without an owner, not only wanting to settle down in one place, but also thinking of returning to the north, or following the wishes of the young man to travel the world, he feels that he is a very contradictory person, and in the end, he is just a duckweed wanderer.

After walking for a while, he felt a little tired, and he hadn't practiced martial arts for a long time, and he would feel a little tired after walking around for a while. Just when he was thinking about where Li Shanye would meet him, suddenly there was some commotion on the street in front of him, Sima Yi looked forward, but saw that the people did not flee but rushed forward to see the excitement, which made Sima Yi a little surprised, which showed that it was not an official disaster. Otherwise, even the people of good deeds will not be able to hide from it.

"Hey, the government over there is beating someone, let's go, go over and have a look!" A few of the burden-bearers suddenly shouted, followed by more people rushing in. Sima Yi suddenly felt that something was wrong, he was very clear about the gang pattern of the rivers and lakes in Jinling City. In the past, there were many gangs in Jinling City, but after Han Jian came to Jiangnan once, the Cao Gang has become the largest gang in Jinling City. And because of the relatively relaxed relationship between the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Cao Gang had a certain political background in the Southern Dynasties, and the Cao Gang was also the helper of King Hui's power, so now in the case of King Hui's power and the empress is Xiao Zhan. The Cao Gang is growing day by day, and the business has long been made in Jinling City.

Sima Yi didn't want to join in the fun, but he was still squeezed to the place where the incident occurred, but when he was almost there, he squeezed out of the crowd again. When he walked out of the crowd, he couldn't help but take a breath, and when he looked back, he saw some women dressed in flowers and branches on the street. He was shouting with some officials with swords.

Sima Yi didn't understand it very well, but he listened to a person next to him who was watching the excitement from a distance: "It's really strange." Now the women in those official prostitutes have nothing to do, and they dare to come against the people in the government. ”

One next to him said: "Who called these women to be sheltered by the Cao Gang, but now even the government doesn't dare to take care of any matter of the Cao Gang, and everyone says that they are from the Cao Gang, but in fact, these people who are on the errands are quite innocent." I don't believe that the Cao Gang can manage the heavens and the earth, and they can manage so many people. Hey, brother, which hill are you? ”

The one who spoke just now said: "Unfortunately, it is also from the Cao Gang below." ”

"Disrespectful, disrespectful. In fact, the contemptible people are too, they are really passing by the same door, go, go in and drink a cup of hot tea to warm up your lower body? ”

said that he went to the teahouse like a brother.

Sima Yi couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, he originally thought that it was a big deal, but it was just a conflict between a few Qinglou women who went out to solicit customers and the people of the government, just because these women claimed to be members of the Cao Gang, and even the officials of the government could only stare dryly.

Sima borrowed from the arch bridge and wanted to go to the opposite side, and the dispute between the Qinglou woman and the official was over, and at this moment, he suddenly heard a person sigh with emotion: "It's not the New Year's Eve yet, and it's not easy for the dusty woman who comes out to laugh now." ”

The voice was very familiar, Sima turned his head sideways, and it happened to be Li Shanye, who had seen with a smile. At this time, Li Shanye was wearing a satin shirt, which seemed to be very luxurious, which was very different from the style of wearing a Confucian shirt in the past. Sima Yu stepped forward with a wry smile and said, "It turns out that the place where Mr. Li said to meet turned out to be fate. ”

Li Shanye said with a smile: "Brother Sima is making fun of me, in fact, Your Majesty has already informed you of your residence, and I have been with you all the way since you left the mansion, wanting to see where you are going, but I didn't expect that you were just wandering around this street, or did Brother Sima have already guessed that my question is just an empty question?" ”

Sima Yu was ashamed and said: "It's not that I guessed, but I had no clue at all, so I could only go casually." ”

Li Shanye laughed, the two had not seen each other for a long time, and they had been in trouble together, and Sima Yu's temperament changed somewhat because of Li Shanye's influence, and the two felt a little close when they reunited after a long absence. Li Shanye said: "It's rare to reunite with Brother Sima today, you might as well let me be the east and entertain Brother Sima, I don't know if Brother Sima has a good place to go?" ”

Sima Yi shook his head helplessly, to say that there are only one or two places he is familiar with in Jinling City, and they were all taken out by Xiao Ling in the past, but now he wants to hide his identity and not let people know his life or death, and those places where King Hui often goes to and even the shopkeeper knows him naturally can't go.

Li Shanye said: "In this way, I saw that those dusty women were living so hard just now, so we might as well take care of their business, what does Brother Sima think?" ”

Sima Yi really didn't expect Li Shanye to be so understanding, he just thought if he could help these women, but now Li Shanye actually wants to do business, and it is not such a way to help. But he still nodded with a wry smile, Li Shanye walked in front, Sima Yi followed, and the two of them arrived together in a small two-story building by the Qinhuai River.

"Someone is coming, a guest is coming!"

The woman, who was still indignant, suddenly saw Li Shanye, dressed in luxurious satin, coming in from the door, rushing forward like a bee seeing nectar, so that Sima Yi, who was following Li Shanye, was selectively ignored by them.

"This guest officer, you are here for a banquet...... Or are there sisters who are on good terms? Our banquet here is a must, even if the guest officer invites dozens of tables at a time, it is no problem. Bustard Niang came out to accompany Li Shanye and said with a smile, she only thought that Sima Yi was Li Shanye's follower behind her, so naturally she didn't even have the mood to pay attention.

Li Shanye said with a smile: "As long as there is a banquet, it is not the proprietor today, the proprietor is our Sima brother, and you will call the best wine and food here and the most beautiful girl to accompany you!" ”

At this time, all the women noticed that Sima Yi, who was not amazing in the back, and a woman stepped forward and said with a smile: "The son is really dignified, but I don't know who the son is?" ...... surnamed Sima Could it be the Sima family in the west of the city? ”

Li Shanye stepped forward and escaped the money directly from his arms, but it was not a silver ingot, but a gold ingot, which stunned the women present.

"Don't ask, hurry up and prepare the wine and food and beauties, and you want to have a good time with the Sima brothers, you don't know how to treat hospitality here?"

With Li Shanye's words, where did those women have anything to say, and hurriedly went to prepare. In the official brothel that was originally small, there were only Li Shanye and Sima borrowing this table of guests.

When Li Shanye went upstairs, he said: "You see, the war in the north, many refugees followed the south, and the original singing and dancing in Jiangnan is now quite sluggish, if it continues for a long time, it will not take a year or two for these official prostitutes to close down, and these women may have to go out of business." That's how hard the world is. ”

Sima Yi didn't say anything, he always knew that Li Shanye's speech was unfathomable, since he chose to meet him in this kind of place for a long talk, on the one hand, it was to avoid people's eyes, and on the other hand, he might have other intentions.

Sima said: "If the world is difficult, where is the difference? ”

Li Shanye smiled, at this time the two had already gone upstairs, and the bustard mother went to check the authenticity of the gold ingots before hurriedly going upstairs to entertain, welcoming the two into the private room, just sat down, tea, preserved fruits, and snacks were all sent up. Li Shanye instructed: "Invite the best girl, the best thing for our Sima brother is beauty, if there is a place where the hospitality is not good, not to mention that there is not much reward in the next place." ”

The bustard mother originally thought that a gold ingot would have to be found upside down, but now it sounded that not only did not need to be exchanged, but also rewarded, so she was overjoyed and hurriedly went downstairs to urge the girls to get familiar with the dress. Sima Yi smiled bitterly: "Mr. Li, isn't he sincerely laughing at me? ”

"It's not like that, just do a good deed." Li Shanye said with a smile. (To be continued......)