Chapter 247: South of the Clouds

When Xu Yongzhi returned home, Duan Meimei had already prepared for supper.

Tanzhou rice noodles, capers and minced meat are fragrant, Rao is that there are no chili peppers in the Song Dynasty, and this bowl of noodles also makes people worry.

Northern women don't actually know how to do such things, but after meeting Xu Yongzhi, they gradually learned it.

Xu Yongzhi and Duan Meimei sat down together and ate head-to-head.

"I'll go over with Xiao Phantom to see her." Duan Meimei said.

"Hmm." Xu Yongzhi lowered his head and didn't say much.

"Take your little sister back, I'll take care of her." Duan Meimei said.

Xu Yongzhi shook his head.

"It's okay to go and see, but her injuries are still quite serious, and she can't stand the teleportation technique now."

"I will send clothes and food to the past, and by the way, I will entrust it to Lao Jin's family." Duan Meimei said.

"Okay, there's a lady Lao." Xu Yongzhi said.

"What else can you say to me?" Duan Meimei said.

"Meimei, I'm thinking about one thing, what are you going to do after it's over?" Xu Yongzhi finished eating the noodles, put down the chopsticks, looked at her seriously and asked.

"What to do? What's the end? Duan Meimei asked in surprise.

"After taking revenge." Xu Yongzhi said.

"As an official of the Great Song Dynasty, don't you always have to return to your hometown?" Duan Meimei asked puzzled.

"You know, I don't like intrigue at court." Xu Yongzhi said.

This is not wrong, the various forces in the court are intertwined, and the various forces in the Kaibao period can probably be divided into the old minister faction, the martial arts faction, the prime minister faction and the Jin Wang faction.

The old ministers faction are all a group of old men, since the death of Fan Zhen and Wei Renpu, there is only one leader Wang Pu, and it is naturally better if a person gets their blue eyes, but in general, they are useless to speak;

The martial arts faction is the group of veterans who were released from military power by a glass of wine, after handing over the military power, these people are busy making money, and some people have become landlords and bullies in their hometowns, robbing men and women, and they also have a set of rhetoric: "Do something bad, and the officials will not suspect us." ”

The prime minister's faction, that is, the force around Zhao Pu, is dominated by some transactional bureaucrats and young jinshi, who now hold power.

The Jin King faction is a group of civil and military people who are close to the King of Jin, but no one openly admits that they are members of the Jin King faction, the reason is very simple, that is, they are afraid of the suspicion of the officials.

There is also a group of people who basically have no faction, they are only loyal to the Son of Heaven, such as Zhao Guangmei, Xu Yongzhi and Wang Jien.

In such a court, if you are as old as Lord Wang Pu, it doesn't matter, eat a bowl of worry-free tea and rice every day, and wait to return to your hometown, but Xu Yongzhi's age and identity, Zhao Kuangyin will inevitably trust each other in the future - that is his son.

Zhao Dezhao is twenty-three years old and is already a charismatic young man.

He is physically strong and quite vigorous, many young heroes are willing to obey him, and he is the natural leader of a group of young military officials, this group of young men is always called "prince" and "prince" together, but Zhao Dezhao will always stop the conversation.

"Don't call it that, it's called a festival envoy."

Although he was the eldest son of Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Dezhao was not crowned king.

His father, the Emperor, was very strict with him, almost harsh.

At the age of thirteen, he began to serve as the defense envoy of Guizhou, and later reappointed the envoy of Xingyuan Yin and Shannan Xidao Jiedu, and the Taifu of the inspection school, the first two positions of governance were in Hanzhong, and handed over the fertile field of Hanzhong between Shu and Qinchuan to his son to manage, this is Zhao Kuangyin's mind.

"Others call me an official, it's not for nothing, and I'm not a god-given king, if my son doesn't make an inch, he can't be crowned king!"

Some people say that the rich raise their daughters and the poor raise their children, and Zhao Dezhao's raising method is not an exaggeration to say that it is "harsh".

In his early twenties, Zhao Dezhao was already counting the population, grain and grass in Hanzhong, and arranging for the local soldiers and civilians to reclaim wasteland.

"That's right, when you are young, you should go down there and be with the people." Zhao Kuangyin is very satisfied with Zhao Dezhao's style.

Zhao Dezhao's martial arts are not bad, after all, he is the child that Xu Yongzhi once trained, but Xu Yongzhi has been missing for ten years, and no one continues to guide him, so he is stronger than his uncle King Jin, but he is a natural person, which is with his father.

Zhao Pu mentioned Zhao Dezhao's title to the king several times, and Zhao Kuangyin always replied: "No hurry, no hurry." ”

Zhao Kuangyin once privately said to Xu Yongzhi that he was the young master of the crown prince and asked him to protect and assist Dezhao, so this time to defeat the Southern Tang Dynasty, it is likely that Dezhao will be sent to the army as a deputy general or a supervisor.

After this time, Dezhao will become the crown prince, and Xu Yongzhi may officially become the young master of the prince and be Dezhao's protector.

Xu Yongzhi will be deeply involved in the palace struggle, don't forget, there is also the volume of the Empress Dowager's edict, the volume of the "Noble Alliance" hidden in the palace.

"I want to retreat bravely ......from the torrent," Xu Yongzhi said to Duan Meimei with his head down.

"Retreat? How to return? Duan Meimei said.

Duan Meimei was worried that Xu Yongzhi had lost the desire to fight.

But she may have overlooked the sense of boredom that Xu Yongzhi is full of work.

"I want to say goodbye to my hometown." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Don't say stupid things, Xianggong, how can you tell your old man to return to his hometown when you are in your thirties? The officials will not agree. Duan Meimei said.

"So, I want to escape to a hidden place, would you like to come with me?" Xu Yongzhi asked.

Duan Meimei opened the window facing the street.

The Xu family has always lived in the old mansion, and the newly built house was resold to Wang Xianqi's family by Duan Meimei because of Xu Yongzhi's disappearance.

"Xianggong, have you seen the mountain character hall?"

Of course, you can see that the building is still lit up at night, the guys are making pills, and there is an emergency room open at night.

"I don't know what you're going to do with it, but I'm still a little bit of a part of it." Duan Meimei said.

Duan Meimei is a family lover, she will wear everything on a flat shoulder called home, and then carry it on her back without saying anything.

Xu Yongzhi nodded, he also knew that he couldn't hide from everything in the future, but there was a moment, that moment, he would think that if he took Xiaogui away a few days ago and disappeared for another ten years, it would not be bad.

"I'm sorry, I haven't had a baby with you for so long." Xu Yongzhi stroked Duan Meimei's sideburns.

"It's too late to work hard now. Besides, the genealogy is our child, and your Xu family has an heir. Duan Meimei said.

"That's right, I have to work hard for his fame." Xu Yongzhi said.

"In another five or six years, the genealogy will enter the martial arts selection class, and then it will be the time to fight for the father, it would be good if he could take over your class as a water army envoy, if you make a salt sauce envoy and a douban envoy, wouldn't it be too embarrassing." Duan Meimei is thinking about the future of her child.

She stopped talking, and Xu Yongzhi hugged her tightly.

"I owe you a lot......" Xu Yongzhi's voice was apologetic.

"Well, you have to take your time to ......," Duan Meimei said.

Early the next morning, Xu Yongzhi was shaken up by Duan Meimei.

"Xianggong, the prince is here."

"Who?"

"Wang Jien, ah, it's Zhang Dejun!"

"Oooh."

Xu Yongzhi hurriedly washed his face and went downstairs in court clothes.

"My brother, why are you still asleep?" Wang Jien shouted.

"My brother, why are you here so early, not early today?" Xu Yongzhi argued.

"Who said it wasn't, but there was a guest today, and the official asked you to bring Master Duan over."

"Lord Duan?" Xu Yongzhi asked sleepily.

"Amori!"

"Oooh! Is it because he has merit in entertaining Lord Seo Hyun? ”

"I don't know, anyway, the official family is very happy."

Xu Yongzhi hurriedly asked the old housekeeper to go to the courtyard next door to call Duan Zishou, he and Ah Crisp lived in the rebuilt West Courtyard, and Sister Qiao lived in the East Courtyard.

After a while, Ah Shou called, the housekeeper also prepared the horse, and Xu Yongzhi, Wang Jien and Duan Zishou rode straight to the palace.

Zhao Kuangyin was waiting for them in the study.

In addition to Zhao Kuangyin, there are some other guests.

When Xu Yongzhi entered, he felt that the atmosphere was a little strange.

A middle-aged man in his early forties, dressed in a late Tang Dynasty official uniform, with dark brown skin, sat under Zhao Kuangyin and sat opposite Zhao Pu.

If you can sit down in front of the official, this person is not simple.

"See the official family!" Duan Zishou shouted loudly.

Xu Yongzhi felt that his brain was trembling, and he wanted to teach Ah Shou court etiquette, but he was afraid that it would be difficult.

"Ah Shou, good brother," Zhao Kuangyin said with a smile, "The matter of entertaining Lord Xu is very good." ”

"Thank you, Big Brother Emperor! I just thought that his surname was Xu, and his brother-in-law was also surnamed Xu, so it should be a family, so I invited him to eat a leg of mutton, and every time he wanted to say something he didn't understand, I asked him to eat a leg of mutton, and soon he shut up. ”

"You see, so cute, so clever." Zhao Kuangyin said happily to the middle-aged man.

Xu Yongzhi almost laughed.

Cute, Ashou definitely deserves it, but the word clever, it is estimated that Ashou has heard of it for the first time in his life.

The man nodded in satisfaction.

"I heard that you are Duan Zhengren's son?"

The man asked.

Xu Yongzhi understood.

Duan Zhengren is none other than his father's brother Xu Taishi.

When Xu Taishi first recognized Duan Zishou and Duan Meimei as children, he once said that his original surname was Duan, but the name Duan Zhengren was a pedigree name, and few people knew it.

"I don't know."

"Ah Shou, the name he said is Uncle Taishi." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Ahh I know too well! He's my father! Duan Zishou shouted.

The brown man nodded.

"Your Highness, what we are looking for is you!" The brown officer said.

"Your Highness?" Duan Zishou was puzzled.

"Let me explain," Zhao Pu said, "This is Fu Da, the Taishi of Dali, who came to my Great Song Dynasty, firstly to pay tribute, and secondly, to find the heir to the throne." ”

"So ......" Xu Yongzhi looked at Duan Zishou with a naΓ―ve face.

"The person who can become our king of Dali now is Your Highness!" Fu Da confessed to Zhao Kuangyin, and turned to bow down to Duan Zishou.

Knock knock three heads, Duan Zishou's eyes were straight, and he only knew that he was stupid.

Only Xu Yongzhi remembered the prophecy:

"The first person to be crowned king in Shanzitang is not Xu Jin, but Ah Shou."

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