Chapter Ninety-Eight: Looking for You Liwei (I)
After the long road, in front of it is a wide street that can accommodate eight horses in parallel, on both sides of the road, all kinds of mansion compounds, green shade and green plants, business stalls, and so on, restaurants, tea stalls, morning shops, silk villages, everything.
Looking at the details, there are ditches specially used to drain sewage, barrels for piling garbage, owls for lightning and fire, and some specially divided paths for vegetable trucks, dung trucks, etc., all in all, here, all aspects of people's lives have a certain degree of exquisiteness.
On the street, the crowd of people coming and going, bustling, rubbing shoulders, sweating into rain, exhaling into clouds, everyone's face involuntarily overflowed with a beautiful hope and sincere pride, staying here for a long time, will naturally be infected by others, and strive for a better tomorrow.
Dignitaries, children of families, peddlers and pawns, and ordinary people, all gather here, even if each other's identities are very different, but they can also walk on the same road harmoniously, and even nod to each other.
Opened his mouth and breathed deeply, this is a completely different smell from the air that has become very rough due to the fine grit on the side of Youzhou, and the emotion in Gu Xuan's heart is also spontaneous, sure enough, there are some things, when you have them at your fingertips, you will never feel how precious, but one day when you lose it, you will really understand how precious it is.
Not to mention him, the Ma family brothers and Morobeti have been completely dazzled, these three people, the first two have been circling in the village since they were born, and they are no longer than going to the nearby county town to catch the market, and the other one, although their own tribe looks very rich, but it is also relatively speaking, if compared with the magnificent city in front of them, it is not even comparable to an insignificant corner.
The three of them looked east and west, and their brains couldn't keep up with their eyes, because their eyes moved too fast, and they even had a slight sense of dizziness.
So beautiful!
It's so beautiful!
Such a city, such a world, is so beautiful!
Only when you have truly seen such a world can you live up to this world!
No matter what these three people think, Gu Xuan has some scheming in his heart, even if Ye Zhihuai came over to mention it just now, but he is still ready to take someone to the post station first, no way, this is the rule, although Gu Xuan is nominally going home, but his current identity is different, since he has the name of a king of Hedong County and has an actual position, then when he returns to the capital, he must first go to the post house to settle down, and then the post station will pass the book on his behalf, and then wait for the summons.
Of course, if he has Beppu in the capital, he can also go to live directly, generally speaking, no one cares about it, and it is not too serious a violation of the law, but he is poor and white, where did he come from, and it is impossible to go directly to Yongle Palace, not to mention that he is not at ease to let the Ma brothers and Morobeti and others stay alone in the post station, this capital is not so beautiful on the surface.
This group of people didn't dare to delay, and their feet didn't stop, fortunately, Gu Xuan lived here for the first eighteen years, and he didn't dare to talk about every corner of the capital, but at least, the approximate location of each place was clear, not to mention that he had also been to the post house, don't forget, when the merman clan came, he lived in a separate courtyard called "Sihai Mansion" that was opened separately by the post station.
But at this moment, a person suddenly came to the street, it was none other than Gu Xuan's old acquaintance in the capital, Xu Huaiying!
The grievances between these two people will extend to their childhood at the earliest, for so many years, there has been no big conflict on the surface, but the small frictions are really too many to count, not to mention these, just why Xu Huaiying "coincidentally" appeared here today, and "coincidentally" ran into Gu Xuan.
Starting from the beginning, since Xu Jintang repeatedly resisted and disobeyed the decree and refused to send troops to aid Yanzhou, but it was Chen Bing's Liangzhou border, eyeing the tiger, which was almost equivalent to a rebellion, his own sister, that is, the concubine Niangniang, who was extremely prosperous in the harem for a while, and was almost on a par with Queen Su, was directly beaten into the cold palace, and even Gu Li, the third prince, was pressed into the cold palace together.
My sister and nephew are all implicated by it, not to mention Xu Huaiying, Xu Jintang's own son, who was naturally placed under house arrest in his own mansion by the imperial court, and even implicated the entire Youzhou Party.
Speaking of Xu Huaiying, he was originally in the Xu Mansion in a panic all day long, while he was deeply afraid, worried that he might be arrested and killed tomorrow to vent his anger, or be used to sacrifice the flag, while scolding himself in the room all day long that his cheap father who had never met at all would not come to trouble, his son was still a hostage in the capital, how could he rebel desperately like this?
In this way, he suffered for a month and one day less, when Xu Huaiying was so stressed that he was about to go crazy, he didn't expect the situation to suddenly turn upside down, his father not only did not rebel, but became a hero against the enemy, although the court has not yet made a definitive conclusion on this matter, but at least in his opinion, this should be the truth, because the house arrest against him has been lifted.
To say that in the first few days, he was still a little scared, and he still hid in his house and didn't dare to go out, but he couldn't stand someone sneaking to see him, and he complimented him a few words, so that he found the feeling of being commanded by the old days, plus he was a playmaster, and he was bored in the house for so long, he was already impatient, once he got out of trouble, he had to have a good time, let off his pressure, and was beaten like this, so he naturally came out half-pushed and half-on-place, but he didn't expect to meet an old acquaintance head-on.
What Xu Huaiying doesn't know is that he is now just a chess piece that has been used to test Gu Xuan, although there has been news in the palace that Xu Huaiying's kid has taken shit luck, not only is it fine, but he can continue to inherit his Xu family's ancestral position as the Duke of Zhuguo, but the real power is gone, not to mention that some people who are more well-informed know that Xu Jintang is dead, and the military power of Youzhou has fallen, in other words, the biggest reliance of the Xu family is gone, and without the military power, they are not even a paper tiger, and Xu Huaiying, where does this kid have brains, it is too simple to use him, no, just blow him a few words, this kid is fluttering, and he took the initiative to run out.
Xu Huaiying was talking and laughing with the person next to him, but the moment he turned his head, he was stunned, his eyes widened, he blinked lightly twice, and his two hands rubbed his eyelids vigorously, and then he stared at it for a long time, and then exclaimed: "It's you!
Seeing this, Gu Xuan frowned slightly, he actually saw the other party earlier than Xu Huaiying, but it was impossible for him to take a detour in order to avoid this kid, because it was also a disguised show of weakness, he knew this very well, and he also knew that this kid must have been deliberately used as a gunman, because the person who accompanied him here at the beginning and talked and laughed with him had now turned his back silently and walked away into the crowd.
Many people don't understand what kind of place this capital is.
Actually, it's a place to eat people!
Don't look at the prosperity of this city on the surface, everyone seems to be polite and abide by the rules of etiquette, but think about it carefully, this is the center of power in the entire Da Liang, everyone here is thinking about how to step on other people's heads to climb up, living here is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, just because you know this, so how can he take this step back?
Someone comes to test you, the best way to deal with it is not to hide, but to chop the other party's hand directly across the line, so painful that the other party no longer dares to come so clearly, it is the right reason, sometimes, intimidation is far more useful than reason.
The expression on Gu Xuan's face was very indifferent, although he had some resentment towards Xu Huaiying before, to be precise, it should be disgust, but after experiencing so many things, he had already looked down on it, after all, those deliberately opposed things that were actually very childish were nothing compared to the real battles he experienced after leaving the capital.
This kid is just a pampered child, and he is just a pawn that is used by others, he is really a bad person to the bone, he will not behave so obviously, and compared to those bad seeds who play tricks behind their backs, only take advantage of others, and they don't show up at all, people like Xu Huaiying can already be called good people.
Gu Xuan said lightly: "Get out of the way." ”
When Xu Huaiying heard this, the expression on his face suddenly became even more surprised.
"You dare to talk to me like that? By the way, aren't you in Youzhou? Who allowed you to come back? The prince must not leave the fiefdom without permission, this is a rule set by the ancestors! You dare to secretly return to Beijing, this is a big crime! Hey, you kid is in my hands this time! Go! Follow me to the criminal department and say!"
While speaking, he actually stepped forward and stretched out his hand, grabbing Gu Xuan's wrist.
Gu Xuan didn't bother to look at him at all, but looked around directly, although he only had one eye, his eyes were extremely sharp, like a falcon scanning its prey.
The conflict that suddenly broke out in the field has been noticed, and the people around him naturally retreated, but they didn't go far, but gathered in a circle to watch the excitement, this is human nature, not all of them are outsiders' eyeliner, but secretly, there are indeed many pairs of eyes, watching what he will do.
How?
The corners of Gu Xuan's mouth hooked, and he smiled coldly.
"Smack!"
waved his hand and slapped it, the force was so great, he directly beat Xu Huaiying in place and turned around three times, the latter was directly stunned by this slap, covering his face with one hand, his body swayed, and he was stumbling in place for a long time, and he couldn't even speak.
"Hmm, hmm, you, hmm"
Gu Xuan didn't look at it, he directly crossed him, and as he walked, he beckoned to the people behind him: "Go." ”