For the wine shops and restaurants on Qianmen Street, the first month of the national mourning is over, and this difficult day is over. Now it is the Chengping period, and the people who go down to the restaurant are all about drinking wine and eating meat, this ban on slaughter makes them have no meat to sell, and the ban on drinking is to let them have wine and don't know who to sell it to. Right now, the white lantern at the door has been replaced by a red lantern, and the lobby on the first floor and the second floor are finally full, and even the voices of the guys soliciting customers at the door are particularly loud.

"Hey, the wine of Yuquan water, the meat of Xishan Village, is not strong enough and not fat enough, and I don't want money."

"There is time in the private seat, blowing, playing and singing all the live bags"

"Du Kang old wine, Du Kang old wine, the aroma of wine wafts ten miles away"

In the evening, the loud shouting voices rendered this Qianmen Street more and more lively, and the crowds were boiling around, and the well-dressed bigwigs in the private seats were staggering, but there were inopportune shouts and shouts next to them. In such a noisy environment, some people feel that they are finally relaxed, and some people are very unimpressed. At this moment, on the elegant seat facing the street of a restaurant, Chen Yan was very unaccustomed to the noise coming from all directions, and put down the teacup in his hand angrily.

"Don't these people have no hearts and lungs? Although the national funeral has passed, it has not passed 100 days after all."

"Relatives or sorrows, others have also sung, you should understand this truth." Luo Xu glanced out lightly, and saw that there was a lot of noise everywhere, so he sighed and said, "The national funeral is far away from this ordinary person after all, how can you expect them to really respect the former queen as the mother of the country...... Don't talk about this, you go back and thank your sister on my behalf, she reminded me very much, the current Luo family is really full of flowers. ”

Seeing that Luo Xu's mood was not high, Chen Yan hurriedly comforted: "My sister said it, she is just thinking about it, Senior Brother Luo, you just have to listen to it, what is there she can say." It's just that she said that the situation in the imperial garden was what she saw with her own eyes after all, and she was afraid that she was just afraid that the concubine would be picked up. By the way, I haven't congratulated Senior Brother Luo yet, the inspection of many warehouses and pastures has been done beautifully, and a lot of silverfish have been found at once, not to mention, even the advice has been praised by the emperor."

"The emperor just asked the exam questions to see what I was capable of, and besides, it was all in everyone's hands. They didn't want to be a leader, so I took the credit alone. ”

Although he is used to being casual, but thinking that he still has the fame of Jinshi, even if he does not attack the knight, this time it is always unavoidable, and this time he fell into it deeply, Luo Xu suddenly gave birth to a kind of bitterness of cocooning and self-restraint. His father is the hereditary Duke of Weiguo, his aunt is a noble concubine, and his nephew is still King Lu...... In this kind of family of honorable relatives, he should be low-key, why do he have to feel that he can succeed without relying on that lustful father, and go to find a way to try to pass the county government test and the township test, but now it is good, his father has made a great achievement, and the middle palace is hanging in vain, and this time it is all messed up, Han Hanlin also quietly reminded him that the imperial historians seem to have some impatient posture.

Depressed, he raised his glass and drank it all, but suddenly found that there was no liquid in his mouth that made people forget his troubles, but bitter tea, and then he remembered that he had promised Chen Yan to replace wine with tea. Glancing apologetically at Chen Yan, he coughed and said, "Senior brother, if you forgive your sins, I really want to drink two cups today." ”

It was the first time Chen Yan saw Luo Xu, who was giggling, showing such an expression, and nodded in a daze. When the guy brought the wine, he saw that Luo Xu poured three glasses in a row regardless of 3721, and then simply lifted the lid of the wine jug and poured it directly into his mouth. At this time, he finally couldn't sit still, stood up and went to Luo Xu and snatched the wine jug.

"Senior Brother Luo, you can't drink like this"

Luo Xu's eyes widened, and when he saw Chen Yan holding the wine jug with a nervous face, he suddenly laughed dumbly, thinking that he had already drunk all the jugs, what was the use of the little guy holding this in his mouth? It's just that when he saw that serious face, which was almost stubborn, he couldn't help but think of the only time he went to the Yangning Marquis Mansion for many years before sending Chen Yan home.

At that time, it was the Chinese New Year, my father was only an earl, and the title could not even be hereditary, and he had always been in the southern town and could not come back, he and his mother did not even have a mansion in Beijing, just a rented house. In the luxurious and solemn Hou Mansion full of high friends, his aunt's children were forbidden in the house and were not allowed to come out to meet guests, he and his mother were hung in the corner, he angrily pulled his mother and was about to leave when he saw the sister and brother come out, when the elder sister was holding the younger brother's hand, while wiping the sweat of the younger brother with a handkerchief, the mouth was still teaching people, that kind of harmonious appearance made him envy without brothers and sisters by his side.

As a result, he accidentally collided with a subordinate, and the siblings immediately came over when they found out, and when the younger brother asked about the situation, he angrily reprimanded the subordinate for neglecting the guests, and when the elder sister was to send them a box full of candied pastries.

Haven't seen it since. The Yangning Hou Mansion and the Weiguo Mansion are said to be in-laws - but an Aunt Luo who is at most a second room is naturally uncountable in the eyes of the orthodox family, and even if the mother doesn't remember the cold reception of the Yangning Hou Mansion, she is also angry that Aunt Luo instructed Chen Ying to arrange a beauty for her father, and the two of them rarely go out, so after that time, it was the reunion of Huguo Temple. It's a pity that the two of them didn't remember him at all at that time.

It doesn't matter if you don't remember, the beauty of the first encounter is only in memory, and if you don't have it, it's in vain.

"Senior Brother Luo, Senior Brother Luo, wake up, the people around you say that there is something important"

Awakened by an angry voice, Luo Xu raised his head with misty eyes and saw a young man with clear eyebrows behind Chen Yan. Recognizing that it was a henchman who came out with him, he frowned and called someone forward. Just as he was about to ask in a low voice, he saw Chen Yan staring at him, so he coughed lightly and said, "It's noisy left and right, no one will eavesdrop, if you have anything to say, you can say it directly." ”

The little guy glanced at Chen Yan, and then whispered: "Young master, I just got the news that several imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have sued the master." Say sir...... said that the old man was marching outside, and he actually accepted two Mongolian women to serve by his side. ”

As soon as these words came out, not to mention Luo Xu's eyes widened, even Chen Yan was extremely embarrassed. As for the little guy who spoke, by the last two sentences, his voice was as high as a mosquito's cry. After a long time, Luo Xu reacted, hehe sneered twice, and his expression returned to normal, and he no longer saw the depression and helplessness at the beginning.

"Our master is really ......," muttered and omitted the second half, and he asked lightly, "Is this the only news?" ”

"There is another news, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is not the only one who has impeached the master." The little guy swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then said with a smile, "The two generals who followed the master were also involved, saying that they were plundered by the army...... In addition, Commander Yang, who won a great victory in the Lok Ma River, was given a copy of ginseng, saying that he killed prisoners......"

Luo Xu was very unimpressed with the so-called raiding of the army. If this army is outside, if it is really as insistent as those rotten Confucians who read the books of the dead, will the Mongolian people be grateful that they will not invade again in the future? The hadith of the great grandfather is that if a person offends me, I will offend someone, and the military expenses used by the army know how to shout, but after the plunder, they still shout, which is really strange. It's just that when he heard that the other army was also involved, he was stunned.

He thought about Yang Jinzhou's square temperament, and almost thought that he had heard it wrong: "Kill prisoners? ”

When Luo Xu asked, Chen Yan couldn't help but mutter: "Brother Yang will kill prisoners, how is this possible?"

The little guy saw that his master and the master's junior disciples were all in disbelief, and he was a little depressed, and immediately said in a muffled voice: "The killing of the prisoner was the news from the Yamen of the Ministry of War, saying that someone surrendered during the great victory, and an experience of the army rushed to Commander Yang to agree, but Commander Yang happened to recognize one of them as the person who had deceived the gate of Chuxinghe Fort, and immediately ordered not to surrender and kill directly. ”

"I've already cheated once, of course, I'm afraid that he will cheat the second time, and he has done this without reproach. It's just that those civil officials are really full of food and support, and those who have won the battle are all swept in, so they are not afraid of sweeping the emperor's face? ”

Complaining is complaining, but Luo Xu really has some spirit. He knows his father's virtues, and his reputation for having no daughters is probably known both inside and outside, but after this great victory, he is afraid that there may be an element of self-defilement-it is true that self-defilement uses such a trick to defile himself. However, even so, my father may not know the news of the death of Empress Jingzhong, and if he did, he should not be so calm. Thinking about it this way, he has to add some other considerations, and he can't wait for the dust in the palace to settle.

After getting such news, Luo Xu and Chen Yan, a pair of senior brothers, naturally had no intention of staying in this noisy place for longer, so they immediately checked out and went downstairs, said a few words, and then got on the horse and returned to the city. When he arrived at the bottom of Chonghe Fang, Luo Xu saw Chen Yan raising his hand at him and was about to gallop in, and suddenly stopped him.

"After I go back, you help me say to your sister and thank her for holding the box back then. Also, after all these years, you are still the same enthusiastic as before. ”

Chen Yan was inexplicably said by these two clueless sentences, and after entering the mansion from the West Corner Gate, he suddenly slapped his head with all his brains, vaguely remembering that there seemed to be such a thing in the past, so as soon as he entered the second gate, he went straight to the Splendid Pavilion. At this time, it was already twilight, and Chen Lan was also about to go to the Tatexiang Courtyard to serve the Zhu family for dinner, but he saw Chen Yan rushing in head-on.

"Sister, I have something to say to you"

Chen Yan directly dragged Chen Lan into the Dongji room, and blasted the girls out, so that he and Luo Xu were in the restaurant today, especially the news reported by the little girl. But before Chen Lan could think about it, he said with a strange face: "Senior Brother Luo also asked me to bring you a sentence...... Say thank you for holding the box back then. ”

What does that mean?

Chen Lan didn't react for a while, but Chen Yan had already taken his hand and babbled about his guess. However, listening to that, she tugged at the corners of her mouth to reveal a wry smile, but in the end she only sighed.

I see, it turns out that someone planted the cause back then, but she reaped the fruit.