Chapter 25: Lost and Found (2)
What a bright dust! It really pinched her soft underbelly! Qingcheng looked at the brocade box in front of him, obviously disdainful of this kind of trick.
Seeing that she was displeased, the coachman became anxious, and said: "Actually, this brocade box was not given by my general, he was also entrusted by others...... The general said, if you come to return this thing, he will order the servant to pass on to you a sentence - 'If you lose it, you will cherish it'. ”
"Lost and regained, cherished and treated." Qingcheng muttered these two sentences in his mouth, and naturally understood the meaning of the words. It seems that it is absolutely impossible for Ming Chenyuan to take back this pair of Emei thorns, and he should deliberately avoid her today.
Thinking of this, Qingcheng didn't want to embarrass the people in this house, so he reluctantly said to the coachman: "Since this is the case, I won't wait, I will accept this thing for the time being." But please tell General Ming that it is difficult to complete the broken mirror and difficult to collect the water, and 'he' doesn't have to think in vain. ”
As soon as she had finished speaking, she had turned back to the way she had come, and the coachman hurriedly led her out.
When the two arrived outside the side door, Qingcheng bowed slightly to the coachman and made a Taoist salute: "Farewell." ”
The coachman was quite flattered, and bowed back the salute repeatedly, so that the two of them waited at the door for a while.
At this moment, Qingcheng suddenly felt as if someone was watching her, this feeling was very familiar, exactly the same as the feeling she felt at the post station on the day she returned home! She immediately turned around and looked around, but Ming Chenyuan's private mansion was already remote, and it was a side door, so no one noticed her at all.
Only a man in white happened to turn around and walked towards the mansion not far away, looking at the figure that was walking quickly, it looked a little like Chu Li?
Qingcheng knew that he must have been dazzled, so he closed his eyes and opened them again, only to see the man in white stepping into the mansion. Unfortunately, the doorman had slowly closed the door, slowly cutting off her sight.
Qingcheng couldn't help but take a few steps forward, raised his eyes and looked at the mansion, carved beams and painted buildings, high eaves and teeth, just looking at the façade is very magnificent. Her eyes fell on the door plaque - the Shaoqing Mansion of Taichang Temple.
Just last month, King Yan canonized the surrendered King of Chu as the "Marquis of Yong'an", the title can be hereditary, and he enjoys 2,000 households; posthumously crowned the late eldest son Chu Li as "Xinhou"; Canonized the second son Chu Heng as the son of Yong'an Hou and the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, and gave him a mansion to live in.
Just looking at the name of "Marquis of Yong'an", you can see that he is a prince who enjoys wealth and has no real power, especially if he can't leave Jingzhou. And his second son Chu Heng's title of Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, although it is on the fourth grade, the same level as Ming Chenyuan, but it is a position with no real power, and it is just a matter of holding ceremonies and mausoleums.
Allowing the princes to live separately from the prince is simply against the law of etiquette and etiquette, and there is no precedent to follow. gave the prince Chu Heng an official position and gave him a single residence in the mansion, which seems to be generous on the surface, but in fact, he is afraid that the father and son will secretly conspire to restore the country!
Fortunately, King Yan placed the Chu clan well, and the specifications of the mansions purchased for them exceeded those of courtiers of the same rank, and they could barely be regarded as preferential treatment.
It turned out that this was Chu Heng's mansion. Chu Heng (heng second voice) is Chu Li's younger brother! Although Qingcheng has lived in Chu for three years, he lives in a simple place because of his identity. And Chu Heng left the palace early, she only saw him a few times at a few grand banquets, and she couldn't remember what he looked like at all. In particular, Chu Heng is often absent from some important occasions.
She only remembered that Chu Li loved this brother very much, but she was also annoyed that he was not doing his job properly and was obsessed with martial arts.
No wonder the back of the man was so familiar, it even made her mistake it for Chu Li. He should be Chu Heng! With Chu Li's mother, it is not surprising that there are similarities.
In fact, she really wanted to visit the King of Chu, but she knew that she was not qualified. Thinking of this, she was also a little sad, afraid of losing her temper in front of the coachman, so she hurriedly boarded the chariot and ordered the coachman to drive back to Xuanji Palace in Qianxia Mountain.