Chapter 16: The Gathering (2nd Watch)
Gu Qingyan got out of the ya, and after coming out of the ministry, the sky was completely dark.
He stood at the entrance of the bureaucracy and instructed the coachman, "Go to the old house." ”
The coachman was stunned, "Childe? ”
Gu Qingyan paused for a moment, and suddenly remembered that An Huajin had returned to Nanyang, he stood silent for a while, rubbed his eyebrows, and decided to go to An's old house, "You heard it right." ”
"Yes."
The carriage drove to the old house of the An family, and on the street, it met the carriage of King Jing's mansion.
The coachman of King Jing's Mansion said to the inside, and King Jing asked the coachman to stop the carriage, opened the curtain, looked at Gu Qingyan's carriage, and shouted, "Lord Gu." ”
Gu Qingyan also opened the curtain, his face gentle, "Respect His Royal Highness." ”
"Master Gu, this is not the way to look back at home, where are you going? But a covenant with someone? King Jing asked with a smile.
Gu Qingyan said softly, "Go to the old house." ”
King Jing was surprised, "Isn't it said that Lord An Xiaojun left Beijing to leave Nanyang?" ”
He secretly thought, from the small county lord An came to Beijing, he never met once, he asked many of his brothers, and the brothers said that they had never met, since she first came to Beijing, she encountered the assassination case of poisoned tea and secret poisonous wine, and single-handedly pulled Zhang Zaifu down, brought down the power of the second prince, and hit the power of the third prince, so that the second prince died, and the third prince is now locked up in the palace of the third prince and closed doors, and the rest of the people, except for the seventh prince Chu Yan, who dares to take the initiative to come to her? They all hid far away, afraid of touching her, including him, and didn't want to see her.
It is precisely because of this that the brothers have been holding back for a while, most of them are holding back in their own territory, and even asking the queen to say goodbye to her must ask if she will not enter the palace that day. Even the street of eating and drinking tea outside the house has been canceled. It's just him, who goes out once in a while, and he's a bit bold. But fortunately, I haven't met it.
However, he didn't expect An Huajin to leave Beijing so soon.
Therefore, I heard that after she left Beijing, tonight, the brothers planned to find a place to have a good meal, wine and gathering.
Of course, this celebratory gathering, there must be no Chu Yan, although he was also invited, but he has always been bland, and his brothers are lukewarm, not far or close, neither good nor bad, usually a little more serious, for example, the brothers' birthday banquet, he will also participate, but Yuexianglou and other red powder land, he naturally did not set foot in it, and pushed it.
Recently, Chu Yan has been hot, and the brothers also want to get together today, take the opportunity to explore each other, and think about the future by the way. Whether to run to Chu Yan quickly, or join hands to pull him off the horse, you have to get a charter.
In the past, they were pressed on the heads by the second prince, the third prince, and Chu Yan, but now those two people have fallen, although the third prince is alive, it is estimated that he will not have the strength to fight anymore, unless he relieves himself in the future and holds back a big move. In short, there is only one Chu Yan left, and they have to ponder whether they can bring him down.
There is also this Lord Gu in front of him, will he continue the tradition of the Gu family, if he does not stand in line, will he change the style of the Gu family, because of An Huajin, and help Chu Yan. Then they are really not very good at pulling Chu Yan off the horse.
"Lord An Xiaojun has left Beijing and returned to Nanyang, but I have been used to eating the food of the An family's old house for many days, and I plan to go for dinner." Gu Qingyan said casually.
King Jing: "Huh? "Is the food in An's old house so delicious?" ”
"It's delicious."
King Jing suddenly remembered, "It's the cooking made by the cook in the Jokhang Temple, right?" ”
Jokhang Temple's famous vegetarian fast, since the cook entered the old house, no one can eat it. He misses it too.
Gu Qingyan smiled, "No, it's the cook of the An family's old house, An Ping followed Lord An Xiao back to Nanyang." ”
"Take it away." King Jing was frustrated, "It seems that I won't be able to eat such a delicious vegetarian vegetarian fast in the future." ”
Gu Qingyan was noncommittal, "Where is His Royal Highness King Jing going?" ”
"Go to Yuexiang Building and get together with my brothers." King Jing invited, "Lord Gu can come along?" ”
Gu Qingyan shook his head, "It's getting late, don't let your Highnesses wait for a long time, go quickly." ”
King Jing nodded, and the two said goodbye.
Gu Qingyan's carriage continued to the An family's old mansion, and King Jing's carriage went to the Yuexiang Building in Hongfan Lane on Eighth Street.
In the Yuexiang Building, the dark night lights were lit up, and all the princes were large and small, and the princes who were over ten years old were all there except for Chu Yan and the three princes. The third prince is a frustrated person, and he can't get out for less than a year and a half.
King Jing came the latest, but he was, and everyone arrived neatly, and he had been waiting for a long time.
Seeing that he was late, the fourth prince asked, "Eighth brother, have you delayed anything?" Why did you come so late. ”
King Jing bowed his hand to the brothers to apologize, "My brother met Master Gu on the road and talked for a while, so it was too late, brothers forgive me." ”
The fourth prince was stunned for a moment, "You have some friendship with Master Gu?" ”
Since the news of An Gu's marriage was released eight years ago, they knew that they had to stay away from Gu Qingyan. Only Chu Yan will be born in the queen's belly, and if he is blessed to have a relationship with him, they can't do it, so they try to get in front of him as little as possible, after all, not to mention that the lintel of the Gu family is noble and does not interfere with the change of imperial power, it is just to make up, with this relationship with An Huajin, they are useless, but they are targeted by Chu Yan.
"There is no friendship." King Jing shook his head, sat down, and said in a very small voice, "Don't you all know? ”
"Know what?" Everyone was curious.
King Jing coughed and motioned for the little eunuch who was waiting close to him to close the door of the box.
The sixth prince reassured him and said, "This place has been chartered by our brothers today, and they are all cronies, you just have to say it, you can't spread it." ”
"Then you'll have to be quiet, too." King Jing pretended to be cautious for a moment, and whispered, "Father and Emperor plan to cancel the marriage of Angu, but it has not been implemented yet, and he is secretly thinking about it. The world is changeable, so we don't have to look far away. In case ......"
He didn't say the rest of the words, but everyone understood.
Now the brothers sitting here are sitting neatly, and their hearts are almost neat, the emperor has recently praised Chu Yan among the courtiers, and there is a faint posture of making him the prince, and it is true that they are a little flustered.
"Father wants to cancel the marriage of Angu? That...... Who does he want Lord An Xiao to marry? Eighth brother, who did you listen to? The fifth prince asked.
King Jing said mysteriously, "You don't care where I heard about it, there is such a thing anyway. Absolutely true. As for who to marry Lord An, it is naturally our cousin of Lord An. ”
Everyone was shocked.
All the princes have their own foothold channels, everyone saw that King Jing said very surely, and at a glance, they all felt that their news channels were probably not as good as King Jing, but they didn't know that this was a big deal.
"Why?" One person wondered, "An Gu married, even if Lord An Xiaojun didn't marry the seventh brother, it would be towards the seventh brother." Could it be that my father has other plans? ”
"I don't know." King Jing shook his head, "Father must have his own reason, I probably think that it is better to let An Gu marry than to kiss and kiss?" ”
Everyone pondered and pondered, thinking that this really made sense.
The millions of soldiers and horses in Nanyang Palace, who is not red-eyed? Since he has the intention of establishing Chu Yan as the prince, then his father naturally wants Chu Yan to pinch a million soldiers in his own hands.
Just like when my father was hard and hard, he used countless methods to force him to marry the current queen. The military power of the Nanyang Palace, with the queen in the palace, is it not stable for a generation?
Scare!
What are they going to do?
"Eighth brother, do you have any ideas?" The fourth prince asked.
The eldest prince is not confined, the third prince is no longer playful, now he is here for a long time, if he really lets Chu Yan be established as the prince so smoothly, he is unwilling, he thinks that the brothers are not very willing.
If you can fight for that position, you have to try, you can't just give up without a fight, right? They are all dragons, except for Chu Yan, the people in here are all the same.
If one day, if you can really fight, it is the supreme right, how you want to live. If you don't grovel and wait for Chu Yan to take a bite of food in the future, won't you be so aggrieved in that day?
King Jing kept an eye on him and hurriedly shook his head, "I don't have any ideas, so I happened to get the news occasionally, so I quickly informed my brothers." ”
This is a statement, he does not fight for that position.
Everyone looked at him, and then remembered that he seemed to have a good relationship with Chu Yan, although it was not very good, but because he often went to the south study, Chu Yan often appeared in the south study because he entered the court, so, every three or five times, he and Chu Yan met, and they would always chat for a few words, unlike them, they couldn't see Chu Yan for ten days and half a month, and when they did, they would see each other and say goodbye, and there was no topic to talk about.
He is the concubine of the middle palace, and he is a weak man, so naturally he will not rush to tie up anyone, his father doesn't like him, and they don't like it either, so for so many years, he has been friends with the second prince, but unfortunately, the second prince is dead.