95. Father-son secret talk

"Brother Erniu, is that the one you have been sewing and mending for him?" Guo Yu teased her.

"What's the matter, it's not just Brother Erniu's, uncles and aunts take care of me, and I will help everyone sew and mend clothes or something, don't think about it. ”

Wang Ping'er said this, but her face flushed, which caused Guo Yu to laugh again.

"Well, I'm sure he'll take good care of you. However, I didn't expect the girl to have such a vision and mind, and Xiaosheng really admired it. ”

"We, the poor people, don't have any vision, it's just pushing ourselves and others, and we're used to seeing life and death in the past few years, so what can't we face. ”

Wang Ping'er's indifferent tone revealed the strength of the weathered, which made him suddenly think of Yu Nuohailai, Xiao Yu'er is also such a person, bantering indifferently, revealing the indifference and perseverance that a teenager should not have.

"In this case, the girl will please put away Ling Zun's waist card, and when he captures Luoyang in the future, he will also order someone to find the girl's whereabouts. ”

"Okay," Wang Ping'er smiled with relief when she saw that Guo Hua no longer insisted, and then said: "In fact, not only the crypt, but also the alleys along the city wall are also being built. ”

"I didn't notice this last night. ”

"Well, that group only works during the day and rests at night, and I don't know why. ”

"It's too close to the city wall, and the sound of the night is far away, for fear of being detected by **. ”

"Oh, I see. ”

"Is there anyone in this courtyard who does that kind of work?"

"Yes, an uncle took a few young offspring to work in Yanqing Fang in Dongcheng, saying that between the original Fang and Fang, as well as some roads in the Fang were blocked, and some places where there were no roads were originally chiseled and the roads were opened, making it like a maze. ”

Although Guo Hua has not yet arrived at the scene to take a look, he can probably judge the enemy's intentions - the rebels want to lure ** deep and do a battle to the death.

The rebels couldn't hold out anymore. However, from another point of view, the battle of the trapped beast forgetting to die is also extremely threatening for **, and it must not be taken lightly.

Guo Hua's plan was to replace one of the ice pickers and take a look at the construction site, but when he woke up, it was almost noon, and it was already past the time to go to work, so he had to wait for tomorrow.

After lunch, Guo Hua breathed for a while, then fell asleep and rested, and tonight he could go to Shi Siming's house to have a look.

Just after the hour, Guo Hua arrived at Shi Siming's house.

It has been found out last night that the situation is probably consistent with what Zhang Jiwu's brothers said, there are only Shi Siming in the house, the eldest son Shi Chaoyi, and the second son Shi Chaoqing, and the rest are all servants and maids, and the female dependents in the family are not in Luoyang.

On this night, the clouds covered the moon, the lights in the Shi Mansion were sparse, Guo Hua came to the outside of Shi Siming's study, and it happened that there were Shi Siming and Shi Chaoqing's father and son talking about wine.

Shi Siming, Shi Chaoqing, father and son, were eating and drinking around the stove, and the servants were probably dismissed, only Shi Chaoqing was adding wine and food to Shi Siming and serving his father.

The topic seems to have just begun, Shi Chaoqing is shushing his father to ask for warmth, it turns out that Shi Siming is responsible for supervising the progress of the fortifications at night these days, and it is freezing cold, so he must pay attention to his body.

"These are all trivial things, An Qingxu wants to be this supervisor for his father, it is nothing more than to test and tempt, to see if he, the king of Jin, maybe the future Emperor Dayan, can move me, and his father is just to take a look at the construction site, and then say hello to his prince's East Palace. ”

When talking about the four words of the Prince's East Palace, Shi Siming raised his eyebrows, and his tone was extraordinarily heavy. At present, An Qingxu is still the king of Jin, not the crown prince, but he has lived in the east palace in the palace.

Shi Chaoqing heard his father's words, and laughed sarcastically.

"Hehe, Brother Qingxu is also too anxious, but he dares to do this, which is quite admirable, I'm afraid the emperor doesn't know about it. ”

The emperor mentioned by Shi Chaoqing refers to the Great Yan Emperor An Lushan.

"Hmph, I definitely don't know, but he does this is also some means, who let the emperor clamoring at every turn to pass on the crown prince to Zhang Haitang's son, he did this to announce to everyone that he must take the emperor's throne, and secondly, he can also take the opportunity to win over his own forces in advance, isolate the Zhang family, and exclude dissidents. ”

"What my father said is that Mrs. Begonia's son is just a little doll, how can he afford the current situation, if the emperor is clear-minded and lasts for a few more years, there may be room for his Zhang family to make a fuss, and now I am afraid that no one is optimistic about them. ”

"Brother Zhang Jiwu is not worried at all, what he is afraid of is that if the emperor really issues an edict and sets up that little son as the prince, An Qingxu has a plan, it is always unjustifiable, and when the time comes, it will have to be bloodstained for hundreds of miles, the world is impermanent, and everything naturally has to be planned in advance. ”

"That's exactly what my father said. Shi Chaoqing complimented.

Shi Si was obviously a little impatient with his son's compliment, and asked: "These days, you have been mixed with An Qingxu, have you noticed anything unusual?"

"Strange, what's strange, father refers to-" The expression on Shi Chaoqing's face almost turned into a naked flattery.

"Hmph-" Shi Siming snorted, put the wine glass on the case, and said sharply: "At present, Luoyang is in danger, and An Lushan's life is on the verge of death, but you only care about eating wine and having fun with that kid." ”

"Father-father-" Shi Chaoqing was resigned, but he couldn't say why.

Shi Siming let out a sigh and sighed, the anger on his face gradually subsided.

"Your eldest brother talked to me today. ”

"Big brother, what did he talk about with his father?" Shi Chaoqing looked a little nervous.

"Regarding An Qingxu's matter, he sensed that An Qingxu was deliberately alienating us, and in some things, he began to guard against us. ”

Shi Siming raised his eyebrows slightly at his son, still slightly reproachful.

"This-the child doesn't understand, he An Qingxu wants to be the prince and the emperor, so he should actively win over his father. Shi Chaoqing frowned.

"Hey-" Shi Siming sighed lightly, was silent for a moment, showed helplessness on his face, and then said: "You, you, act decisively and ruthlessly, this is very similar to being a father, but in terms of observing words and colors and understanding the current situation, you are really too far behind your eldest brother, which really worries your father." ”

The child understands that the child must remember his father's teachings, and that he is really living up to his father's expectations. ”

"Oh, it's strange to say, I don't know if he resembles his mother too much, or if his mother died early, and I didn't take care of him when he was young, so he was born with the kindness of a woman and a weak temperament, hey——"

Shi Siming drank a full cup of wine, his expression was lonely, and there was a lot of loss and helplessness written on his face.

Seeing his father revealing such a mood, Shi Chaoqing looked a little vigilant, carefully poured wine for his father, and lowered his eyebrows.

As Shi Siming said, the eldest son Shi Chaoyi's mother died early, and he was in the prime of life and was running around on the battlefield, and his son's temperament became more and more incompatible with him, and the relationship between father and son was naturally estranged.

What's more, Shi Chaoqing was born to his favorite Mrs. Xin, and he liked him very much, so he had already promised his wife that if it was a hundred years later, the Shi family's family business would definitely be inherited by Chaoqing.

Shi Chaoqing naturally understood these things in his heart. So he cares very much about his father's feelings for his eldest brother.

"Father, although my eldest brother and I were not born to the same mother, after all, we are both father's children, and my eldest brother is elegant and generous, and he is deeply loved by his subordinates, which is also a good thing. ”

Shi Siming glared at Shi Chaoqing, but he didn't continue his topic, but asked again: "Tell me, why does An Qingxu want to alienate and beware of our Shi family?"

"There's something you don't want us to know. ”

"And yet?"

"And then—then—"

"Even if he wants to be the crown prince and the emperor, so what? Why doesn't he want us to know?"

"This-" Shi Chaoqing's face was cold, he was shocked, and said in a trembling voice: "He doesn't believe in us, and treats us as enemies-"

"Whether he is regarded as an enemy at the moment is not necessarily, but even if my father and son have the heart to protect him, he has already become suspicious of us, and he will always accompany you like a tiger in the future. ”

Shi Chaoqing's face became even more ugly.

The Shi brothers and the An brothers grew up in a small group, studied together, hunted together, and went to the Qinglou together to find women, which were like siblings.

Among several people, An Qingxu and Shi Chaoyi are the most assertive, but Shi Chaoyi has an introverted personality, so when everyone is together, An Qingxu is often the leader. Shi Chaoqing was a few years younger than them, and he played behind his buttocks, so he naturally regarded An Qingxu as a big brother.

What his father said, he never thought about.

"But, but, father, how did things come to this point, you and the emperor, and Uncle An are also like brothers, and our brother and the emotional brother are also brothers, why doesn't he trust us? If he doesn't believe us, who else can he trust?"

Shi Chaoqing's tone was filled with a haste that could not be concealed.

"Hahahaha, thanks to you who he can trust, when a person is getting closer and closer to the highest power in this world, many things change, maybe one day, you and your eldest brother will have to face such a situation. ”

Shi Siming said abruptly.

"What? Father—"

Shi Siming ignored his son's panic, ate a few mouthfuls of wine and food, and ordered him to go back to his room to rest.

Guo Hua stood guard outside the window for a while, and waited until Shi Siming fell asleep before he returned to his residence the same way.

Later, Shi Siming took the initiative to go to Zhang's Mansion and talked secretly with Zhang Jiwu, Guo Hua also happened to hear it, and knew that Shi Siming intended to surrender to Chang'an.

However, it was another thing for him to decide to go to Chang'an to ask for help.

Guo Hua returned to the mansion where the ice picker lived, and just after the hour, he fell asleep after some breathing, and the next morning, he was in good spirits.

Throughout the day, Guo Hua was mixed with the team of ice pickers and followed him to the construction site that Wang Ping'er had mentioned before.

Roughly consistent with the information I learned before, the streets in the alleys and alleys around the city walls and city gates are being renovated, and some places that were originally private house walls have opened up their way out, which is indeed like a labyrinth.