When she arrived at the Cherishing Pavilion, Liu's mother didn't need to ask her, she was waiting outside the door. Before Wanying approached, she heard the magpies in the east flower room 'chirping', and when she got closer, she heard the sound of someone talking, and when she went in, she saw that her father was really inside, and said: "Daddy, a word came in from the gate, saying that the long history of the Anyang Eldest Princess's Mansion came to our house to find you." I'm guess I'm waiting in the foyer, Daddy will take a look. ”

"People from the Eldest Princess Mansion of Anyang?" Master Shi asked Wanying.

"Yes."

The royal discount in the master's hand was on the coffee table, straightened his clothes, motioned to Aunt Lin to put away the music, and got up and went out.

"Did you hear clearly, is it from the Eldest Princess of Anyang's Mansion?" Aunt Lin hurriedly picked up the fold and locked it in the carved wooden cabinet behind the bookcase in the flower room. Closing the cabinet, pulling out the key, tying it around his waist said.

"Well, it's the long history of the Eldest Princess's Mansion."

"Come here at this time, there must be something."

"We have never had anything to do with the eldest princess of Anyang, I don't know what it is...... Xu is to see that Wanyun has been awarded a high position, come and congratulate you, right? Wanying said such words, but in her heart she thought about what she had just encountered in the back garden, although the two things were unrelated, she didn't know where to give birth to some worries.

"No, last year's uncle's wedding, the eldest princess also said that she was sick and did not go to congratulate, so the queen mother still had a lot of complaints. How can we condescend to be honored today? Aunt Lin frowned.

"The queen's mother's family is just relying on the queen mother to be an idle official, not to mention that the queen's brother is still a junior. How could the eldest princess of Anyang surrender her identity? Can they be like us? Daddy is the commander of the Nine Infantry Commanders of Shuntian Mansion, and if Daddy coughs, I'm afraid the entire capital will catch a cold. Daddy stomped his feet, and the Ziwei Shrine would also fall a few layers of dust, and Daddy, a minister who held real power in Gyeonggi, asked for a congratulatory gift from the eldest princess of Anyang, and it was also the eldest princess of Anyang who wanted to join in the excitement of our family, didn't it? Wanying originally wanted to joke with Aunt Lin, but unexpectedly said the most substantial key.

Aunt Lin smiled, I don't know whether she was happy or worried, she chose a few purple jade grapes, held a milky small bell, handed it to Wanying, and only said: "Yes, the emperor, Wu'anhou, the eldest princess ......"

"Mother, do you mean that the emperor, the Marquis of Wu'an, and the eldest princess, are all trying to woo their father?"

"Mother doesn't dare to have ten percent certainty, but seventy or eighty percent certainty is still there, this time Wanyun can be a nobleman, presumably the eldest princess must be secretly strategizing, come to our house today, it is estimated that your father should repay this favor."

"How can you pay it back?"

"The eldest princess and Wu Anhou have never been on good terms. Wu'anhou is the queen mother's person, but the emperor's biggest dilemma now is that Wu'anhou is highly powerful, and the lord is weak and the minister is strong. The eldest princess is most distressed by the emperor, and today's events must also be related to Wu'anhou. ”

It is said that Master Shi hurriedly walked out of the flower room, only covered his civilian clothes with a black feather heavy pattern gown worn by the guests, and walked straight to the foyer, personally welcoming Changshi into the Zhengxing Hall to speak.

There are already a few pots of charcoal fire in the hall, and the firepower is not yet fully opened, but compared to the ice and snow outside, the hall is still happy.

Changshi opened his mouth and said: "It's not that the lower officials are good at building the Tan Mansion, but they actually sealed the order of the eldest princess, and they have to go over the house to disturb it, and please don't blame the adults." ”

The teacher also returned the salute with sincere fear: "Don't dare, don't dare, father-in-law." A few days ago, I heard that the lord of Anyang was slightly infected with the cold, and he should have visited the door to show his foolishness, but he heard that the lord was closed to thank the guests, so he did not dare to disturb. ”

Changshi smiled slyly, and said very much Lao Cheng Nada said: "Okay, you white-faced Guan Yunchang, close the door and thank you, thank you for being a foreigner, but it has become your rhetoric." ”

Master Shi laughed and said, "Father-in-law, it's funny, the princess has been better these days?" ”

"It's like a kind word between us. The Lord is still three meals a day in the past few days, but it can be regarded as a great peace. ”

"In this case, my father-in-law must greet the Lord for me."

"Don't worry! But you kid is like a loach that got into the king's nest now, if you don't dig the king's hole, you really can't catch you. ”

Master Shi repeatedly apologized: "There is a condescending father-in-law. ”

"Stinky boy, back then, you had so much ability to slap your face, you dared to steal my appetizers, but now that I'm old, you have played Tai Chi with me."

"Father-in-law, don't tease Zhong Yuan like this, Zhong Yuan is really embarrassed."

"Are you ashamed? I see that you are now a big official, and your shelf is bigger; Don't you take our family and the eldest princess in your eyes? ”

"Father-in-law, Hugh wants to say this, Zhong Yuan grew up under the watchful eyes of his father-in-law, even if Zhong Yuan is a hundred and eight thousand miles, he is just a monkey cub, and he can't escape your old Five Finger Mountain."

A witty and humorous self-indulgence, Changshi's expression gradually relaxed, and he took out a letterhead from his arms, and Master Shi hurriedly got up to catch it.

Pulling out the Sanghuang letter inside, the more the teacher looked at it, the more frowning he became, and after reading it, he handed the letter to Changshi, who only asked: "Have you seen it through?" ”

Master Shi nodded, and Changshi casually threw the letter and letterhead into the nearest stove next to him. The blazing fire burned the letters into the air like feathers, turning from yellow to black, and gradually all the words on them disappeared and turned to ashes.

Changshi saw that the master didn't say anything for a long time, nor did he ask questions, but said: "Letter, our family brought it to the princess, the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, the princess was raised by our family herself, and you stinky boy also grew up with our family." Our family is old, and I just hope you are all safe. As for the two of you, if you are free, you will go to see the princess, if you are busy, you will naturally be stumbling on official business in the yamen, and our family will not complain about you. We didn't ask the princess about the content of the letter, and we didn't ask you. See for yourselves. ”

The long history is only the long history of the princess's mansion at the moment, but he served Taizu before, and watched Emperor Yuxian and the eldest princess of Anyang grow up, and he was the chief eunuch of Ziwei Divine Palace. Because of the death of the first emperor, the queen mother promoted another eunuch leader, so she went to the princess's mansion and made a long history.

The teacher is quite embarrassed, on the one hand, he respects his predecessors, and on the other hand, he is really embarrassed by the party struggle. was struggling, and when he heard Changshi's words, a wave of hot and humid air rushed up. In the corner of the eye, I was forced to be pressed by the joy and anger of the perennial business.

Changshi is also a lifetime of surprise, he doesn't need to ask, he doesn't need to read, and he roughly knows what is written in the letter? But it is precisely because he is dying of old age that he is unwilling to inquire more and interfere in the affairs of the younger generations, he is afraid that he will say something wrong or do something wrong, which will make the younger generations unhappy. Or, he didn't want to see himself taking care of the older children and disobeying him.

He would rather be ignorant so that he doesn't blame himself, but even then, he doesn't seem to be as easy as he imagined. Seeing Master Shi standing in front of him in embarrassment, he even beat himself in his heart. He feels uncomfortable if he asks his children to change their decisions, or because his children have done things they don't want to do. He is not afraid of offending anyone, let alone the so-called official oil, and he is by no means the kind of person who does not care about himself, fights with each other, and reaps the benefits of fishermen. On the contrary, he had no children or daughters in his life, and he regarded these children in front of him as his own flesh and blood in his heart. Brothers fight, and it is always their parents who are the most injured. Changshi's mood now is the mood of his parents.

Master Shi didn't know how to speak, Changshi smiled calmly and said, "Our family has to go back." ”

Master Shi got up to see him off, holding the faltering Changshi, perhaps realizing what Changshi had just said, Master Shi changed his words and said, "Ah Gong, be careful of the steps." ”

This voice has not been heard for at least 30 years in the long history. The two people who have been up and down for decades in the sea can't detect the slightest change on their faces. But in my heart, the iceberg between the two of them before, which was as thick as Mount Tai, has disintegrated.

"The stomach problems on your body, are you better?" Changshi asked the teacher.

"Grandpa, it's been half a year young, and it's been okay for a long time. Ah Gong is in winter, does he still cough often? ”

"Your stomach disease is also an old symptom, you have to seriously ask an imperial doctor, carefully draw up a prescription, eat a few pairs of decoctions, and go to the roots. Sitting down is not a joke. ”

The teacher is over half a hundred years old, and he has a long history of gray hair. The little guy next to him hurriedly ran over to serve, but they were all blocked by the teacher. The young servants, unbeknownst to them, would carefully support a dying old eunuch in the house. Even the wife and a few female dependents are afraid that they will be surprised when they see this scene! It was only in the dead of night that Master Shi more or less told Aunt Lin about some of the past when she was young. However, Aunt Lin was not around, otherwise she would have stepped forward and knelt down to thank the old man who was full of twilight. I am grateful to the hungry master for taking the bread he only had one to eat in the war.

"Grandpa, watch your head." The teacher sent Changshi to sit on the sedan chair, and said reluctantly: "In a few days, when I am free, Ah Gong will make a boiled fire, and I will eat three bowls." ”

Compared with the teacher, the old man still has the feelings of the elders, that is, no matter how much he pays for the juniors, he has no regrets, but as long as the juniors repay him a little, he will feel flattered and honestly afraid, so the long history is one step ahead of the master, and his eyes are shining. This scene is exactly the same as forty years ago, in the cold and windy camp, the wind is still the wind that cuts the face, the desolation is still the desolation of the yellow sand and leaves, the boy is still the boy, the grandfather is still the grandfather, but there are forty more years of spring and autumn between the two. Even though Ah Gong still remembers the art of boiling and roasting, can the master really eat three bowls of rice?

Changshi nodded, patted the hand of the master who was supporting the sedan chair with his hand, and at the end, he said: "Go back, our family has to go back to pay the errand." ”