++++++++++++++++++++++++++ the dividing line of the mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings (IV).

When the lights were dim, a gray figure stepped out of the side door of the back door of the left prime minister's mansion, all the way to the Guozijian in the west of the city.

In a small courtyard in a remote corner of Yuelin Academy, a middle-aged woman was baking water on a small coke oven, and tea and plum blossoms had already been prepared in the tea set next to her.

"After so many years, the plum blossom tea you brewed is the most suitable for me."

"There are so few things that will suit you."

"Zi Yan still hates me?"

"If hatred can make the past happen again, I will hate you."

The person who came was Fu Xiang, He sighed deeply, the past is unbearable. Looking at Zi Yan's face, which was no longer young, he felt a little sour in his heart. Back then, Zi Yan was a talented woman in the capital, a serious rich businessman's daughter, who gave up the seat of other people's main rooms for him and came to him. However, he still didn't protect Zi Yan and his son Qiang'er. At that time, he was determined to finally become the emperor, and he was running around for the affairs of the first emperor, and when Qiang'er was critically ill, he was still in the palace to accompany him. His wife imprisoned Zi Yan and Qiang'er in the hospital, they couldn't go out to seek medical treatment, and they didn't let their subordinates help them invite a doctor to come to their home, and when he returned home, Qiang'er was already burned and confused. He rushed into the hospital with the hot child in his arms, and although the doctors tried their best to save the child's life, the child was a little stupid from then on. Zi Yan was heartbroken and left her husband's house with the child. On the way, he was stopped by a house slave sent by Fu Xiang's main room, saying that they had brought the jewels in the house privately, and when the two sides were arguing, Qiang'er slipped off the carriage and ran to the middle of the road, where he was hit by another speeding carriage. The carriage that caused the accident fled, and Mrs. Fu's servants saw that the little young master had died, so they hurriedly went back to the house to report the news. When he got the news and rushed away, Zi Yan's mother and son were long gone.

Since then, Zi Yan has disappeared. It wasn't until a few years ago that Fu Xiang and a few literary friends went on a trip to Xishan that they met her. Although she is middle-aged, Zi Yan's graceful and luxurious bearing has not changed, and Fu Xiang recognized her at a glance. At that time, she didn't want to recognize her, Fu Xiang sent someone to follow her all the way, and found that she had settled in Yuelin Academy, and had been teaching piano skills to female disciples in the academy for several years.

Since the incident with Qiang'er, his father-in-law and wife also made amends to him, and they kept their voices low for a while. He also thought about divorce his wife, but his father-in-law was the governor of Zheng Sanpin, and when his wife married him, he was only a minor official of the seventh grade, which can be regarded as a pity for him. Although his wife is jealous, he is a bad wife, for the sake of his old love and his official reputation, he has never taken that step.

After Zi Yan came back, he wanted to redeem it, so he came to Yuelin Academy whenever he was free. Zi Yan avoided him at the beginning, and later became indifferent, and it seems that she has begun to slowly accept him in the past two years. Every time he came, he could chat with her, from the calligraphy and paintings on the market, the interesting things in the academy, his troubles, and what he saw and heard in the court, it gradually became something that he had difficult to decide, and she listened to him, and occasionally gave him some hints and analyzed with him.

He sat down and slowly drank the fragrant plum blossom tea, as if he had returned to the time when he first met Ziyan.

At that time, the first emperor promoted him from a small ministry to the imperial study, and since then he has been promoted smoothly, and he is grateful and loyal to the first emperor. Every day in the imperial study on an errand, conscientious and conscientious do not dare to be a little sloppy. At that time, several colleagues, Mr. Gao, Lin Gaoyang and Zhou Bing, were all people who had university questions in their hearts. He benefited greatly from working with them every day to discuss statecraft together.

At that time, the contradiction between the first emperor and the queen mother was also escalating. Although he is loyal to the first emperor, I have to say that many of the queen mother's skills and practices are truly suitable and mature. However, others were soft-spoken, and did not dare to speak, nor did they dare to show any remarks that were inclined to the Queen Mother. He's not like they're the sons of a wealthy family, he's just the son of a small private school gentleman. Walking on thin ice in the court.

Back then, Lin Gaoyang and Zhou Bing were judged by Yin of Jingzhao Mansion to kill each other for fighting for women, and he didn't believe it. He knows very well the character aspirations of these two people, how could two people who don't even get involved in flower wine do it for a Qinglou woman. However, at that time, he did not dare to dismiss the conclusion of the first emperor. Let them go like that, he also felt guilty, but he knew that since the first emperor recognized it at that time, it was because of a matter involving Xingyanghou, and he needed the forces of Xingyanghou's family to resist the power of the Empress Dowager Chen family. In addition, the first emperor was a suspicious person, and his ears were soft, so he inevitably believed some gossip about Lin Gaoyang and the Queen Mother at that time, which was something that he, a foreign minister, could not interfere with. I can only watch my colleagues who get along day and night die in vain.