Liuli received Uncle Xu's letter, and hurriedly asked Rui'er to order someone to pick him up into the house. "Ya * Wen * Yan * Qing * Shou * Fa" waited until noon to finally wait for the carriage to pick him up outside the Hanging Flower Gate, and when he saw him get off the car, he couldn't help but have a sour nose and threw himself into his arms desperately.

Xu Yuan's eyes were also red, and he took her for a while and pushed her away and said, "You are a big girl, this is not our south after all, it is not good for people to look at." ”

Liuli said with tears in her eyes: "What are you afraid of? You are my uncle, you have been like this since you were a child, what else can people say about me? ”

Xu Yuan smiled.

Because of the difference between men and women, it was inconvenient for Liuli to lead him in, so he prepared wine and food in the side flower hall under the second door to catch him and wash the dust.

"Yi'er is really getting older and more like your mother." Xu Yuan looked at her for a moment, and sighed faintly.

Liuli served him vegetables, and seeing that he was deeply touched, he couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart.

If, according to Guo Yao, his grandfather was really an official in the palace, then Xu Yuan and Jin Xuan were the only two disciples he accepted after resigning and retreating. At that time, they lived in a small village in the south of the Yangtze River, where the mountains and rivers were close to the mountains, quiet and tranquil, and my grandfather had long black hair, and he wore a cloth coat to serve flowers and grass in the yard all day long. He was obviously amazing, but he never opened a private school to teach, Xu Yuan and Jin Xuan became his lifelong disciples, and after his grandfather's death, he went to Sichuan and Shu and Gusu to make a living according to his will.

Both of them are two years older than Xu Niang, but because the apprenticeship was after Xu Niang studied with her grandfather, Liuli called the two of them Uncle since she could remember, and at that time she thought that there would be two people called Uncle Shi in every family, so she always regarded them as family. Uncle Xu has a calm temperament, he is a senior brother, and he likes to hug her the most at that time and take her to the market to play. And Uncle Jin is more lively, so he always likes to tease her. When she grew up, Uncle Xu taught her poetry, and Uncle Jin taught her chess. The reason why Liuli plays a good hand of chess now is because Uncle Jin, who was active at that time, always couldn't calm down to teach her.

The two of them have been with their grandfather for more than ten years, and they have obviously learned a lot. Any test for fame can have a better future. However, before his grandfather passed away, he repeatedly told them not to step into officialdom, so one sold tea in Sichuan and Shu, and the other opened a noodle restaurant in Gusu. After her grandfather's death, the housekeeper passed away soon after, so Xu Niang and her nurse lived in the village with Liuli. Uncle Xu and Uncle Jin always take turns to come back to see them every month, sending some money, food, cloth or something, until Liuli was nine years old, Xu Niang suddenly coughed up blood after a serious illness, hugged the overwhelmed little Liuli and cried for a few days, and waited for the weather to warm up and get better.

Uncle Xu and Uncle Jin didn't know about it until they arrived in the capital. By the time the two of them arrived, the nurse had already died of the epidemic on the road. Xu Niang is sheltering with Liuli in a dilapidated inn. Uncle Xu couldn't help Xu Niang, and later saw her coughing up blood with their own eyes, and saw Liuli holding her crying and refusing to let go, and couldn't help crying, and then went to He Mansion to inform He Lili of the news.

But I don't know why, they resolutely refused to meet with He Lili, and have been taking care of them secretly. It's waiting for He Lili to finally arrive. They were taken care of before leaving. Since then, Ruri has never seen them again, and only writes to each other. In the last life, she became a maid, and she was always stared at for fear that she would run away, and she couldn't send a letter out at all, because they didn't know her situation, but later after she went to Qifu as Yuhua's dowryman, she rushed to the capital to see her. But it was too late, at that time, she had been tortured by Yuhua to death, and she didn't have the ability to fight for herself to come out and meet at all.

As for whether Uncle Xu finally received a corpse for her after Liuli was killed, it was already a matter of that world, and she had no way of knowing.

"Uncle Shi, did you enter Beijing because of business or not?" She lowered her eyes and exhaled, closed her eyes to hide the urge to cry, and looked up and asked.

Xu Yuan put down the chopsticks, looked at her and said, "I'm here for Master." ”

Ruri was a little surprised, "Grandpa? ”

Xu Yuan nodded, looked at her, and said, "Do you know Master's life?" ”

Liuli was speechless and wanted to say that she knew something, but Guo Yao had never said that Mr. Lan Qing was her grandfather Xu Qiuyin, this was just her guess based on various signs, so she shook her head again.

Xu Yuan said: "I know you don't know, so I'm here to tell you." ”

Liuli hurriedly sat upright. Xu Yuan said: "We all know that Master's name is Qiu Yin, but his real name is not this, his surname is Xu, the word 'Shen', and the number 'Lanqing'." At that time, outsiders respectfully called him Mr. Lan Qing. When the master was young, he was already a famous talent in the south of the Yangtze River, he was born in a family of scholars for generations, and his ancestors also served as the teacher of the Son of Heaven, but he later declined. ”

"Uncle Shi is saying that grandpa is really that Mr. Lan Qing?!" Ruri couldn't help but lose her voice.

Xu Yuan said: "Have you heard of it? ”

Liuli hesitated and said, "I've heard it, but I don't know much." ”

Xu Yuan nodded: "You've heard it." At that time, Mr. Lan Qing's name was up and down in Beijing, who had never heard of it? That year was the twelfth year of Yanping, and it was the time when the parties in the DPRK and China were in turmoil, and the master spent half a year writing a policy for governing the country and presented it to the emperor. After reading it, the emperor was shocked, and urgently summoned the master into the palace, and after talking with him for the whole night, he began to govern the courtiers, and in less than three months, the situation of the court's ministers in chaos had greatly improved. The first emperor Dayue wanted to make an exception to promote the master to enter the Zhongshu Province to participate in politics, but the master rejected it on the grounds that he was not qualified enough, and the first emperor refused to let him go, and finally let him stay by his side to serve as the secretary of the imperial pen.

Because of his noble character, Master attracted many supporters, and for a time became a popular figure in Beijing. The master had no choice but to entertain for a while, and felt that he would be influenced by some of the people who had intentions in the long run, so he only stayed in the Qianning Palace day and night, and never went anywhere. Five years later, he finally wrote a book called "Yanxi Subset", when the emperor himself inscribed the words and asked them to print them in separate volumes for the princes to read, and also stamped the imperial seal on the original work. This scripture was circulated among the courtiers, and many ministers also rushed to read it, and at this time an incident occurred, which finally led to the master's decision to resign. ”

Xu Yuan stopped at this point, and Liuli hurriedly said, "What is the matter?" ”

Xu Yuan glanced at her, and his voice was low.

"Because of this world-renowned book, Master's prestige has been pushed to a new peak. At that time, the princes fought fiercely and secretly, and they all wanted to pull the master for their own use. On that day, a major event happened in the capital, King Yong was ordered by the then prince to be taken into the prison of Dali Temple, because a batch of armor was found in his house. And the young master Dou Jue was also implicated, and all 347 people in the mansion were beheaded. Lady Dou had quietly sent her two grandsons away before raiding the house, and many people knew about it privately, and those who pitied Dou's house secretly hoped that the two children would grow up safely, while others spared no effort to find them.

"Finally, one day, the prince's men caught two teenagers from Yanmen Pass and put them in prison. It had been more than a year since the incident, and the master felt that the evidence of Yongwang's rebellion was insufficient, so he kept collecting evidence for him to exonerate himself, and when he heard that the two teenagers had been arrested, he immediately knelt down and begged the emperor to spare their lives. When the prince heard about this, he was afraid that he would have a long night and many dreams, so he started overnight. By the time the Master arrived with the Emperor's decree, one of the two teenagers had already been killed. The other one has also taken poison. ”

"Did he die later?!"

Ruri nervously tightened the placket of her clothes.

"Of course that one is dead. This one is poisoned," Xu Yuan paused, took a heavy and slow breath, and said, "Master passed through most of the palace city, carried him to the Taiyi Pavilion, and finally let the Taiyi save him. Master was a literati for a while, and he didn't do any heavy work on weekdays, but that night, he carried the descendant of the Dou family, who weighed more than 100 pounds, step by step to the Taiyi Pavilion, which was seven or eight miles away! In this way, he used his own strength to leave a queen for the Dou family, who had never had anything to do with him. ”

Liuli's face was wet, and she stabilized her voice and said, "What happened later?" Where did the boy go? Why did my grandfather resign? Is the prince trying to harm him? ”

Xu Yuan leaned his neck and took a sip of wine, swallowed it before looking at her again. His eyes were already red, "Later, the boy remembered Mr. Lan Qing's name forever, and stayed in Jingzhong. But no one knew him anymore, and he worked hard to live, supporting himself with his own hands, waiting for the opportunity to repay his benefactor in the future. Soon after he rescued him, the gentleman finally found evidence that the prince was suspected of framing King Yong for rebellion, and when he presented this evidence to the emperor, the emperor told him that he had already guessed all this, but for the sake of social security, he was no longer ready to pursue it.

From this, the master knew that it was impossible to rehabilitate King Yong and the Dou family, and the prince had also wooed the master, but the master never accepted it. By this time, the crown prince had already regarded the master as a jealousy, although he had not done anything to him, but the master also felt the danger in the palace, and he was tired of it, so he proposed to the emperor to resign and go into hiding. The first emperor did not allow it, but it was not until later that the master fell ill for this, and the first emperor issued an order to let him go, and before leaving, he tore off a sleeve of the dragon robe and wrote an edict to the master. ”

Liuli couldn't help but say, "What kind of oracle is that?" ”

Xu Yuan shook his head and said, "Except for the master, no one knows what kind of edict it is." Even Jin Xuan and I haven't seen each other. When the master was dying, he told me that he had put a copper box in the White Horse Temple outside Beijing, and that the edict was there, and that when the border pass was calmed down and the marshal was praying for a great victory, he would let me give this to you. ”