Chapter 14: Revisiting the Old Land
Heng Xinyuan patiently explained: "Shu Jishi is equivalent to the imperial court to let us go to the Hanlin Academy to follow and study, and later there will be an assessment, either stay in the Hanlin Academy, or choose to go out."
Wan Bingyu understood, isn't that what it means to rotate during the internship period, and then to take up the post when the time comes.
Heng Xinyuan entered the Hanlin Academy as soon as he returned to the capital, and he could often meet Uncle Luo, of course, in the eyes of outsiders, it was just that Luo Zhishu, as a senior, was a little blue-eyed for Heng Xinyuan.
Wan Bingyu pondered that since he had arrived in the capital, the General's Mansion was in the alley not far away, thinking about going to see if there would be any clues that the General's Mansion had been destroyed. In the evening, when Heng Xinyuan came back, he mentioned it to him slightly.
Heng Xinyuan sighed slightly: "This matter is not in a hurry for the time being, we have just entered the capital at present, and we have not yet gained a firm foothold, and the situation on the side of the court is still being explored, and we will go and see when the situation is a little clearer." ”
Wan Bingyu thought to himself that Hengxin Yuanyue had a day off, and he really didn't have much time, and he was quite busy recently, and he could often see him at night, so he said: "That's it, anyway, I'm very idle every day, and I don't have anything to do, I'll take a look from afar during the day tomorrow, okay?" ”
Heng Xinyuan was helpless: "You are not allowed to act in private, I will go with you tomorrow." ”
In the afternoon of the next day, Heng Xinyuan and Wan Bingyu walked to Guoan Lane together. The alley is close to the north market of the capital, just enough to pretend to go to the market to pass by, and when you go to the bottom of the alley, the former general's mansion appears, and the door is dilapidated.
The vermilion gate was closed, the seal on the door had been tattered under the erosion of time, trembling in the breeze, and the plaque could vaguely see the gilded handwriting of the General's Mansion, but it was also broken and thrown at the door at will. In the entire Great General's Mansion, only the two stone lions at the door seemed to be as silent as before.
Wan Bingyu looked at the dilapidated appearance of the Great General's Mansion, and thought of Heng Xinyuan's pause several times when he talked about the destruction of the whole mansion, and couldn't help but look at Heng Xinyuan worriedly.
But seeing that Heng Xinyuan's eyes were locked on the plaque on the ground, Wan Bingyu couldn't help but grab Heng Xinyuan's hand, Heng Xinyuan seemed to come back to his senses at this time, looked at Bingyu's worried eyes, and smiled comfortingly: "I'm fine, let's go." ”
Then he walked through Guoan Lane without squinting.
Wan Bingyu was led away, raised her eyes to look at Heng Xinyuan, and still couldn't help but speak: "Xinyuan, are you okay?" ”
Heng Xinyuan paused and slowed down: "Bingyu, do you want to hear about what happened when I was a child?" ”
"Yes."
"My father is the famous general Zhenyuan, the kind of person you imagine who is very strict and unmistakable in martial arts."
Heng Xinyuan fell into the past and smiled.
"I am the only child in the family, so the whole family loves me, I will have what I want, I have lived very happily since I was a child, food and clothing are worry-free, there are many friends who played well at that time, some of the neighbors are military generals who are good friends with their fathers in the court, and some are my father's subordinates.
At that time, my father had great military achievements and treated his subordinates very well, so he simply let his father's right-hand man, the left and right lieutenant generals, live on the same street, so this street has become the famous Wufu Lane, and the children in this lane are also the king of children.
But when it comes to who fights the most, who can tie the horse and walk the longest, and who has the most comfortable training with knives and guns, nine out of ten are children in this alley. ”
"When I was a child, children liked to play, and in the eyes of adults, they may be naughty, for example, our group of children just can't get used to seeing the children of the Hanlin Academy next door studying, and they always look at us with their nostrils, so we will secretly catch the hanged ghost worm and put him in a bookbox to scare him."
"For another example, the only son of Wang Shangshu's family knew beauty at a young age, and he didn't know who he learned from, so he molested the little girl in the school during the break in the school, touched the face of the little girl, and his mouth was not clean, so we blocked him on the way down the school, put a sack, and greeted him with his fists and feet."
"And at that time, my little brother fell in love with Cui Shangshu's daughter, but my brother didn't dare to talk, so we instigated him, and I took the lead in talking to the little girl of Cui Shangshu's family, but before I could speak, the little girl cried, scolded us and ran away."
"And ......"
Heng Xinyuan thought of this and smiled: "Later, of course, I was sued by my father's colleagues, especially Cui Shangshu, when my father came back, he tied me up and threw me to the school ground." ”
"My father's expectation for me is also that I will learn martial arts, and then inherit the family business and continue to guard the general's palace and the people from foreign enemies for him."
"So from a young age I was thrown into the school yard, standing on stakes, sadding, and carrying a gun taller than myself."
"At that time, I was young, I didn't know what the truth was, I only knew that I was tired, but I just didn't want to go to school."
I don't know what to think, Heng Xinyuan suddenly laughed: "Then I went to find my mother to be coquettish, my mother is a scholarly family, Wenwen is weak, but my father is majestic in front of outsiders, soft and hard, when I get to my mother, as long as my mother is coquettish, or crying, my father has no choice." ”
"So every time I go to my mother to cry, my mother goes to my father, so that I don't have to go to school for a day."
Wan Bingyu felt sad and distressed when she heard it, as if she also saw Heng Xinyuan when she was a child, leading a group of children on the street every day to punish evil and promote good, and playing clever to escape her father's training.
I only heard Heng Xinyuan continue: "I knew ....... earlier"
The corners of Heng Xinyuan's smiling mouth suddenly tightened: "I knew earlier...... I knew that there would be such a disaster, and I should have listened to my father and not made him angry......."
Wan Bingyu hurriedly said: "Of course you can't be blamed for this, if you want to blame it, you can blame the mastermind behind the scenes!" It was he who killed your family, the old general was loyal all his life, for the country and the people, and he did his best to die, the general's mansion has always been good-willed, never done anything wrong, you were also punished and promoted by evil when you were a child, and it has nothing to do with you. ”
Heng Xinyuan was stunned when he heard this, no one had said this for a long time, and no one had ever commented like this in front of him, since the tragedy of destroying the door ten years ago, the General's Mansion has become a taboo, and no one has ever mentioned it again, as if it has never existed.
And Bing Yu was able to give such a high evaluation just because he had just told a few stories in the past, Heng Xinyuan couldn't help asking: "Why do you say that, what if the General's Mansion really had a rebellious heart back then?" ”