Chapter 19: The Wicked Guest

The old man left, and Wen Zhen began...... Pack your bags.

Fools obediently wait for the Wen family to escort (monitor) to Beijing, when the time comes, there is a huge convoy, there are Wen family members, there are people who set the king, isn't it a hundred times more difficult to escape than now?

The old lady said that if she wanted to escape, she would hang the small cloth bag in a conspicuous place, and naturally someone would blend in with the escort team and wait for the opportunity to send her away, but she did not have the habit of pinning her fate on strangers.

When she came, she noticed that there were a lot of guards in this courtyard, and there was a guarded mother-in-law in front of the moon cave gate, and it was not possible to go through the regular gate, but she could still climb over the wall.

The location of the Silent Garden is remote, and the two courtyards used to be a bamboo forest, and a high wall can be faintly seen behind the bamboo forest.

In the modern era, her roommate Tai Shiyan was an exercise enthusiast, and she was the only one of the other three who could insist on exercising with her, for no other reason than because cooking required a good body.

Especially without arm strength, she can't knead noodles well, and she can't fry vegetables well, so even if she is Tai Shiyan, she can't help but praise her for being a strong Lori.

She was born with a pair of skillful hands, and the skills related to the hands are naturally superior.

For example, in addition to cooking, she is also good at painting, but what she is good at painting is not the kind of freehand splashing ink, nor is it a landscape of flowers and birds, but is more inclined to fine brushwork and copying, and can paint real 3D paintings. Her naturally terrifying eyesight, delicate fingers, and steady arms that come from years of cooking help her capture the subtleties of her images and express them smoothly.

This is also the reason why she can understand the words on the petals of the spring flower at a glance.

Before leaving the institute, she carried out all these utensils of herself, and now she also carries them with her, just waiting for the dead of night to climb the wall.

She didn't wait there, she slept comfortably until midnight, and woke up automatically, when the night was at its deepest, it was better to run away, and it was better to climb the wall.

She climbed over a high wall full of spring flowers, and she was covered in fine gold.

The yard next door is very large, richly decorated, at the moment in the dead of night, still brightly lit, the shadow of the old man is reflected on the window paper, short and chubby.

But like her, there are no subordinates, and the side courtyard is faintly lit, I don't know if the subordinates live there.

Wen Zhen didn't look too much, curiosity would kill the cat.

The front of the court was empty, and the moon was bright tonight, and she would definitely be seen walking from the front of the courtroom, and she walked along the base of the wall, her petite figure hidden in the shadow of the high wall.

Go around the whole courtyard, from the high wall on the other side of the bamboo forest, Wen Zhen walked to the courtyard gate of this courtyard, suddenly the courtyard door opened, a servant came out to pour water, Wen Zhen's back, close to the courtyard gate did not move, fortunately, the courtyard gate has eaves, the shadow is heavy, Wen Zhen changed into a dark dress again, do not look carefully.

The servant poured water and went back to the room, Wen Zhen just breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly there was a shock in his back, and the door panel was slammed!

This sound came suddenly, Wen Zhen's attention was on the servant before, and he didn't pay attention to the movement outside the door, let alone notice that the door was not locked.

The people outside the door also seemed to know that the door was unlocked, and when they knocked, they were about to push it open.

The old man's shouting and scolding in the room suddenly exploded.

"What are you doing in the middle of the night! Get lost! ”

Pushing open the door of the first line, there was a squeak, stopped, and then a voice said, a little embarrassed: "Ancestor, my son brought you your favorite jade fetal soup tonight......"

"Why don't you send something delicious during the day, and be sneaky in the middle of the night? Don't mess up your mind, the old man said, just your girl's talent, it's useless to teach! ”

"Ancestor ......"

"If you don't get out of here, I'll order someone to summon the sixth child over and ask him how to discipline his younger brother who broke into Lao Tzu's yard in the middle of the night!"

There was silence outside the door for a long time, and then the door slammed shut.

Wen Zhen behind the door shook his collar - a cold sweat from a vest.

Hearing the sound of footsteps leaving the door, she bolted it with her backhand.

I had just walked a few steps when I heard a knock on the door again.

The servants in this courtyard are also interesting, and they don't take a probe to look at the knock on the door.

Wen Zhen heard that it was a woman's voice this time, and she slapped the door coquettishly, calling the old ancestor, saying that her granddaughter had a nightmare, and begged the old ancestor to give her a calming prescription that she used back then.

The old man inside didn't scold or ignore anyone this time, and after a while, he blew out the lights with a pop.

The woman outside the door waited for a while, but she could only leave in a huff.

Wen Zhen raised his foot, but before he put it down, footsteps sounded outside again.

Wen Zhen almost kicked the foot that hadn't been put down on the wall.

Don't let people escape!

The knocker was not buttoned, and after a burst of broken clothes, a female voice said: "Jinchun came to knock on the ancestor An." ”

This voice is quite young, almost immature, but the timbre is clear, revealing a bit of silence that does not match immaturity, which is very different from the feeling of the previous half-night villains.

Hearing that the old man didn't move, Wen Zhen faintly saw a crack in the window, it seems that for this old man, the little girl outside is different.

The little girl didn't enter the door, but was still outside the door, and said sincerely: "It's been a month since Jinchun came, and the ancestor is still missing?" ”

Silent.

"Disturbing in the middle of the night, he is really a villain, but Jinchun doesn't understand why the old ancestor is so stubborn."

Silent.

"Is it because of the unfilial piety of your grandfathers to your ancestors?"

Silent, but the sound of breathing behind the window was a little heavy, Wen Zhen thought it was good, and dared to say.

She was interested, wanted to hear the gossip of the wealthy, and changed to a comfortable sitting position.

"But what does that have to do with near-purity? The ancestors are so hidden, thinking that they will be brought underground after a hundred years, and then seeing that my mastery is lost, and I have fallen out of favor with the royal family, and have been in a state of decline ever since? Then the heads of the Wen family for several generations have worked hard to earn this huge business, why bother? ”

Wen Zhen thought to himself, this is really a heart-wrenching word.

The window moved, and it seemed that the old man wanted to pull the sash open, but held back.

"The day the sixth grandfather took over as the head of the family, the ancestor moved into the Mo Garden and did not see outsiders, let Jinchun guess, presumably the inheritance of the head of the family is not in line with the rules of my Wen family." Wen Jinchun still said bold words in that light tone, "The Wen family should have sent people into the palace five years ago, but it was delayed, and they all said that His Majesty and the prince were merciful and didn't want my Wen family to be separated, but Jinchun felt that there might be an ancestor in it." ”

With a bang, the sash was opened, and the old man poked his head out and snorted fiercely.

Wen Zhen sighed, thinking that he still couldn't hold his breath, isn't this a self-confession.

Sure enough, the little girl's voice was a little more determined.

"Jinchun boldly guessed, for some reason, the old ancestor didn't want my Wen family to send people into the palace again, but the sixth grandfather didn't want to give up such an opportunity. After all, my Wen family has been favored for several generations, relying on serving the royal family, once I stay away from the royal family, the Wen family will fall sooner or later. The two parties disagreed, presumably the turmoil in my Wen family in the past few years came from this, and then finally ......" Wen Jinchun seemed to smile slightly, "My sixth grandfather won." ”

Wen Zhen pursed his lips, the wealthy family was overturned, the father and son were opposed, the two forces played for several years, and I don't know how much bloody rain was hidden inside, and in the end, the old lion was defeated and was "decently" sent to the garden to "be raised", and the new generation of family owners immediately arranged to send people to the palace.

This twist and turn gave the little girl a casual speech, as if those cries of life and death were just dead leaves floating in the autumn wind, stepping on them at will, creaking and shattering crisply.

Only at this moment, a long sigh was made for this desolate footnote to the hidden sword light and sword shadow.

"Jinchun, you are very smart, but you are the same as your sixth master, this cleverness is used in the wrong place."

Wen Jinchun, who finally waited for the old ancestor to answer, seemed very happy, and his tone was a little lighter, "Old ancestor, for cooking, I have never slacked off since I started a fire at the age of two. ”

"Since cleverness can be manifested in analyzing the situation, it can naturally also be manifested in cooking, the ancestor, great-granddaughter risked this disapproval to tell you this, not to stab you, nor to show off her intelligence, but to tell you that the great-granddaughter understands everything, and then, it is still inevitable."

"Your great-granddaughter knows what you're taboo about, you're afraid of the palace, and you don't want future generations to step into the most ghostly place in the world, but tonight's words are enough to prove that your great-granddaughter is capable enough to gain a foothold in the palace, isn't it?"

"Since the great-granddaughter has the ability and insists on going, does the stubbornness of the ancestor have no meaning? Even if it's for your great-granddaughter's safety in the future, you should help, right? After all, isn't your original intention to protect future generations? ”

"Alright."

The old man seemed to sneer sullenly, "It's as if you have been selected by the Wen family to enter the palace." ”

Wen Jinchun replied categorically, "There will be no one else." ”

The old man laughed again, but didn't say anything, and said for a while: "You think about it, it's still too simple." ”

"Indeed, Jinchun has never understood why my Wen family has been serving the royal family for many generations, and my ancestors have also served for nearly a lifetime, why do I suddenly start to fear the royal family now."

After a long silence, the old man closed the window sash.

"You can go back."

Wen Jinchun didn't seem to be disappointed, and replied quietly: "Then Jinchun will come back tomorrow night." ”

The sound of footsteps is gone, the silence returns, and the darkness of this moment has no temperature.

After a long time, Wen Zhen heard the old man's voice sounding in a low voice, "King Ding, Queen, Crown Prince, Concubine De, Divine General, Your Majesty, and King Yi......"

He let out a long sigh and melted into the heavy wind of the night.

"It's different now......"

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Wen Zhen didn't move for a long time.

That sigh seemed to tie a thousand pounds, and it stopped her steps, and for a while her mind was involuntarily circling the titles of supreme authority that the old man was talking about at the end.

There was a strange feeling in her heartβ€”it was obvious that the old man's instincts were in order, and they should be ranked from light to heavy according to the degree of jealousy in his heart, but it was very strange, what was the king of Yi, and the order was still after the emperor.

Who else in feudal times could be higher than the imperial power? That's impossible.

That only proves that this person is more difficult than the emperor.

Fortunately, she doesn't plan to go to the palace, if she can't go back, she will find three dead friends for a lifetime in the future, so that she won't intersect with such a high-end person.

She looked at the darkened courtyard and wondered if the old man had lived like this day every night.

The empty and lonely gorgeous courtyard, no taste of brocade clothes and jade food, no one cares about the day and day, and the charm is scheming in the middle of the night.

These people really want to be filial, why don't they show their faces during the day, and come over in batches at night to think about it.

She only walked around the yard, and three groups of people came.

Wen Zhen sighed, and felt more and more that the old lady's suggestion was a fool. Don't send her to such a Wen family.

Seeing that the neighborhood was finally quiet, she was finally relieved, walked quickly to the wall, and was about to climb the wall, when she suddenly heard another rustle of footsteps.

This time, more than one person was heard footsteps.

Shouldn't all the sneaky people who come to harass the old man on this big night come one by one?

What's going on with this big bunch of people?