Zheng Yan didn't get up all day the next day, his face was flushed and his fever didn't go away.

Lying in a daze, he leaned in Ying Yue's arms and drank a few bowls of soup and then fell into a coma again, yesterday's physical strength and consciousness were seriously overdrawn, and the developed Sancheng physique was also trying to stabilize automatically, and the essence and true yuan that needed to be consumed were naturally a lot, so the body automatically fell into a coma, An Guogong and the old lady came to take a look, everything was expected, and there was nothing to worry about, Ying Yue and Xinluo would naturally do it for the nourishment of the true yuan, and others couldn't help much, just let the kitchen make more medicinal food to replenish the essence and the true yuan.

A day passed, the sun was about to set, and the afterglow was shining on the bed through the window, the orange-red halo contained a refreshing autumn mood, Xinluo sat at the head of the bed and looked at Zheng Yan who was lying peacefully in a daze.

On the side, Ying Yue packed up the luggage to go out, that is, a set of autumn clothes and underwear and shoes to replace, as for the winter clothes to the other side, there will be there, doesn't it say that the poor family is rich, just bring enough coils, how much is also a trouble, bring a big ingot of silver for fear that there is no place to spend, and it is not suitable to bring too much copper money, just such a small cloth bag with more money is easy for thieves to see, not to mention what to do if you spend money indiscriminately? In the past two years, I have heard a lot of Qinglou's deeds from those guys, and said that there is a chance to verify it, how can this work! Yingyue was entangled, the silver ticket was convenient, but there were some places where it could not be exchanged.

"Are you really not going? if you say that you will go to Guogong, you will not object", Xinluo on the side of the bed suddenly said softly,

Ying Yue came back to her senses and looked at the girl with a light face and suddenly chuckled, "It turns out that you have been holding him tightly, what is the matter with a cold face all day long? You know that he likes you to laugh, how many times have you laughed in the past few years, when you laughed, and he remembers why you laughed, he remembers",

Xinluo frowned and did not speak,

Ying Yue was a little helpless, picked up a bunch of money and checked it, how could there be more than ten catties, it was really troublesome, and she couldn't help but fall into distress again,

"So you're also very upset, I thought you never got scared", Xinluo chuckled,

Ying Yue was a little helpless, "You only laugh when he falls asleep, by the way, how much money should you bring, don't you often go out on missions?",

Xinluo got up and walked to the table and raised his hand to draw out a half-hanging copper coin, and picked out ten silver ingots of one tael, and after thinking about it, he picked out three gold ingots of one tael, and then stopped moving.

Ying Yue frowned and said worriedly, "Isn't it too little? Nearly 4,000 miles of road, you have to walk for a month, right? You have to go to the post station to rent a horse, in case the horse is lost, you have to pay for others, how much is a horse in the post station? Why do you need more than 20 taels?",

Xinluo looked at the strange and familiar woman in front of him and suddenly smiled, he liked to see her flustered and clueless, was he jealous of her usual demure and generous? Don't look at Luoyang, the cost of a meal in a post house or county town on the road is at most twenty or thirty Wen, and the price of staying in a hotel is only fifty or sixty Wen a day, and the price in the state and county is at most more than ten Wen, so the cost of a day is about 15 to 200 Wen, 6,000 Wen a month, that is, six taels of silver, the straight road to the north is a post station of 30 miles, the rent of an ordinary horse for 30 li should be 20 Wen now, and the deposit for ordinary horses is 5 taels of silver”，

Ying Yue hugged her chest and thought hard, Xinluo happened to see the bulging chest peak, and her eyes, which were originally a little happy, immediately became a little unnatural, looked down at her flatness, walked away with some anger, and went to the outer room to find two boxes, "Two daggers and a sword, both are forged of dark iron, characterized by toughness, durability and inconspicuousness, didn't Guogong say that he was not allowed to bring magic weapons, and I have removed the logo cast by the inner attendant."

Ying Yue suddenly stood up and said hatefully, "No, I'm going to find an official messenger to seal the letter, so that the cost of the road is too much."

Zheng Yan rested at home for three days, and was thrown out of the gate by An Guogong before dawn on the fourth day.

It's better to go out than to stay at home, this is a saying on the side of the clan, Zheng Yan thought it was true when he was very young, when he was eight years old, he was taken back to the clan by his grandfather for the first time, and he spent every day in the bumps on horseback, and he could only sleep for half the night at night, and he couldn't sleep with his eyes open for the rest of the night;

At that time, he shared a horse with the ten-year-old Yingyue, and was always held in Yingyue's arms, for fear that he would fall, the Great Zhou horse politics were developed, and it was very common for children to ride horses, Zheng Yan's appearance was not less laughed at along the way, and the two times he went back at the age of ten or twelve was still the same situation, Xinluo could control the horse by himself. At the age of fourteen, I was finally able to ride a horse on my own, and with the persistence of my practice, I was not lazy, and it was no problem not to sleep for three or four days, and then I could sleep peacefully all night.

In fact, there is nothing on the road, mainly the eyes, attitudes and words of those clan elders after returning to the land.

Zheng Yan didn't feel anything when he went back the first time, but the second time he understood something, those clan elders wanted to deepen their relationship with the clan, and wanted to let themselves be able to provide them with some convenience in the Luoyang court, so their inadvertent wishes could be said to be infinitely satisfied, and the children of the same age were accidentally injured while playing, whether it was the reason for other children or not, those children would be reprimanded and even punished.

Zheng Yan was very sensitive to other people's emotions when he was a child, and after a few times, he clearly felt the caution and hidden dissatisfaction and even disgust of his original partners when they got along with him, so in order to escape those guilt and embarrassment, he began to run to Yiwang Mountain outside the city, where there are also many villages where Zheng clan people live, and the ancestral shrine is also there, so no one said anything, so he simply moved to the mountains and lived with his grandfather.

In fact, Zheng Yan can also understand the thoughts of the clan elders, the most important way to practice, the most important way to pay attention to the wealth of the law, these four conditions, for the Zheng clan with nearly two thousand years of inheritance, the last three can be said to be profound, very early on, there are clansmen began to systematically summarize the practice methods for people with different physiques and different temperaments, matching exercise systems, the experience of predecessors, how to reasonably arrange each other's companions, how to arrange the practice environment, etc., absolutely in the leading position in today's practice world,

It's just that many of these require huge financial resources to support, such as medicinal herbs, spiritual treasures, food and clothing, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, magic weapons, and so on, and you can't let a person who worries about food and clothing all day long focus on the cultivation of the road. Everyone's energy is limited, 10 points of energy, 3 points for human affection, 3 points for food and clothing, 3 points for mundane chores, and the remaining 1 point for cultivation? No matter how amazing and brilliant it is, it can't be anything, right?

Originally, when the Great Zhou Dynasty was first established, the thirteen families, including the Zheng family, controlled a certain number of industries, which was enough to support the development and cultivation of the clan, but as time went by, a country was not a family after all, and the forces of all parties that needed to be balanced were increasing day by day, and everyone wanted to eat delicious food, so there were more battles in the open and in the dark, but fortunately, the thirteen families have been together, but in this way, there are still three families who have died, and competition has become an eternal theme。

Now the power of the court is basically divided into five parts,

First of all, as a centrist courtiers, they generally do not participate in the struggle of other forces, but only concentrate on doing things to seek promotion and glory, born into the cabinet and die of Wenzheng, and the group is to not be swayed by other forces, it can be said that they are the mainstay on the surface, generally known as the "imperial party", represented by Liu Zhang, the first assistant of the cabinet, in addition to the officials of the three provinces and six ministries, there are some local dignitaries;

The second force is the inheritance of the founding of the country, some family income is also set at the beginning of the founding of the country, such as the control of finance and taxation in various places, Caoyun, salt and iron weaving, etc., the forces are mainly distributed in the army and some special yamen such as Sedum Guanguan Qiu Si Qiu Si, has been the mainstay of the Great Zhou secretly, but over the years more or less began to participate in some disputes, Caoyun weaving has been swept away, the control of finance and taxation is also shaky, from the end of the demon war fourteen years ago began to fade out of the power struggle, in short, step by step, these families, including the Zheng clan, are also called"Old Aristocrats";

The third force is foreign relatives, they usually do not hold together, only in the face of common political enemies to unite, such as the second force, the founding of the country is actually a foreign relative, but the generations are relatives, and the third force can generally only be two or three generations of relatives, so the struggle of interests is more direct, from the harem to the place, Caoyun This piece of fat was eaten into their mouths, all in order to cut off the financial resources of those old nobles to weaken the strength, compared to the old nobles, these forces are called "new upstarts" , representing more than ten families such as the Li family, the Zhou family, and the Wu family;

The fourth force is called the "Township Party", most of them are grassroots officials from local backgrounds, supporting each other in groups, and they have their voices from the capital to the localities, but there are also very complex divisions within them, such as those who go to the top of the scientific examination, and those who enter the office through Taixue, as well as those who are from the same township, etc., saying that the grassroots are only compared with the first two forces, and their families are almost all famous families in the locality, and they can cover the existence of one hand in the sky;

The fifth force is the "Qingliu", and it is also the most active force, mainly composed of Yanguan Yushi and Hanlin Taixue Teachers, as well as local Xuezheng, they will be enemies of almost all other forces, but they will never cooperate with any party, they are an important supervision force in the Great Zhou, supervising and admonishing the emperor of Baiguan, and everyone must be cautious.

These old nobles almost retreated under the joint efforts of the other four forces, after all, the old nobles were deep-rooted and powerful, and they were most feared by the other four forces, and the alienation between the Zheng clan and the royal family was the best embodiment.

However, a large part of the royal family members have a stronger identification with the clan, and the clan continues to send cultivation exercises and talents to the imperial court, and even contributes to some key things, so there are probably only a few members of the royal family who are promoting the separation of the country and the clan, Zheng Yan has no position so far, firstly, An Guogong is unwilling to let him get involved in these troubles early, the most important thing should be practice and study, and secondly, Zheng Yan does not have much feeling for the two parties, it is very subtle.

It's just because of his mother's relationship, because of the relationship between his grandfather and grandfather, Zheng Yan was still arranged to stand on the side of the clan, starting at the age of eight, he returned to the clan once every two years, and it became a rule to receive three months of training in the clan, in fact, the training method of the clan is indeed more efficient for the Zheng clan than that of Luoyang.

Looking back at the door and smiling at Lao Liu, Zheng Yan was a little helpless, the big housekeeper sneakily walked out with his sleeves, took out two pieces of paper from his sleeves and stuffed them into Zheng Yan's package and ran back quickly, Zheng Yan just raised his hand, "bang" The door has been closed, and he took out the folded paper and saw that it was two silver tickets, fifty taels each, obediently, do you want to spend how you want?

Then the door was opened again, Ying Yue walked out, smiled softly and took the two silver tickets back, gave Zheng Yan a small box, said that it was sent by the Criminal Department to seal the letter, and helped Zheng Yan straighten his clothes, his eyes were full of reluctance, he raised his hand and stroked Zheng Yan's face and said softly, "Be careful on the road, don't join in the fun, go back early, don't expose your wealth, the sword and the two daggers prepared by Xinluo are worth a thousand gold, connoisseurs can easily see it, don't pull it out easily for people to see...",

It wasn't until there was a coughing sound from inside the door that Ying Yue stopped talking, pursed her lips and said, "Xinluo said to wait for you to come back" , said and walked back to the door, the gate closed again, Zheng Yan sighed and tightened the wrapped long sword and walked to the east, from the east gate out of the city first to Aoki Station, where the horse rode along the straight road all the way to the north, and finally the end is Baoyue City, Baoyue City is more than 20 miles north of Yiwang Mountain, 500 miles of Yiwang Mountain and then north is the Taihua Mountains that run through the north and south for 6,000 miles and the east-west arm ridge, and the Taihua Mountains are further north of the Jiuqu Plain and the Northern Wilderness, and the world is vast and boundless.

The old lady and a few aunts and grandmothers in the door are counting An Guogong, why do you throw the child out! When he wants to leave, it is not too late to leave, and it is not bad for a few days; why don't you send someone? Can others be relied on? How about it no matter how powerful it is? What if there is an omission? Why don't you let me bring a few magic weapons for self-defense? If the realm is low, you can smash people if you don't need to throw them out, Yingyue secretly wiped her tears, and made the third aunt and grandmother feel distressed, seeing that she wanted Qiu Qing and Li Feng to follow, An Guogong, who had been silent, stared, and then quickly slipped back to the courtyard.

Ying Yue and Xin Luo returned to the small courtyard side by side, Xin Luo frowned and was silent, Ying Yue asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" Is there something going on in the Zongren Mansion?"

Xinluo looked at Yingyue, whose eyes were still a little red, and said softly, "The Sixth Division will send someone to follow the whole process, but I don't know who the person who sent it is?"

Ying Yue put her mind at ease, and said with a smile, "Just send people, the people of the Sixth Division are naturally not bad",

Somehow, there was some worry in Xinluo's eyes.

Zheng Yan hasn't come to school for three days since he received the "love letter" that day, and everyone naturally quickly knew that he had taken a leave of absence, and it was a long vacation for half a year, but why did he take a leave? Some people naturally know that they can't stand the boredom, so they make up a lot of theories, saying that they are married to a certain woman of such and such a family, and they want to live together to cultivate their feelings; they say that they were accepted by Qin Tianjian Mo Jian Zheng as a closed disciple and become Jing Tianxuan's junior disciple, it turns out that Jing Tianxuan and Mu Xinghua's eight characters do not match, Zheng Yan is the most suitable, the two of them will become a Taoist couple, and they will definitely be ironclad Tianjie monks in the future, and the Qin Tianjian family will make the birth date eight characters wrong?

There is also a saying that Dongou was a proton, the southeast coast of the Great Zhou Dynasty was attacked by pirates for many years, and it was necessary to unite the Dongou Navy to exterminate it, and it was necessary to have a proton and a marriage to reach an alliance, Zheng Yan was not welcomed in Luoyang, so he was sent out; some people said that because Zheng Yan's qualifications were mediocre, and he usually did not want to make progress, he humiliated the face of the royal family, so he was thrown to the place to exercise; it also seems that the pursuit of Sedum Tianxuan was too stubborn and unscrupulous, broke the rules of Qin Tianjian, offended people, and was imprisoned in the prison of Zongren Mansion.

All kinds of statements emerge in endlessly, Zheng Yan's friends have nothing to say, in fact, they have been a little numb over the years, Zheng Yan has a clue, there will inevitably be such rumors, those people will not miss any opportunity to discredit him, rumors and rumors, after talking for a long time, they will almost form a stereotype in people's hearts, and no national power will let a person with a bad reputation occupy a high position, this is the intention of those people.

Generally this kind of thing will be clarified and eliminated by the royal family and the supervision yamen, whether it is true or not, the rumors must be controlled, and if there are problems, they must be solved secretly, after all, how can a prince involve the dignity of a country and affect the prestige of the royal family, but for Zheng Yan is an exception, which is also the reason why those people spare no effort to arrange without scruples, the reason is very intriguing, and it seems to be clear at a glance.

At noon, Wen Renhu took Concubine Xue's hand and walked to Ye Qingcheng's table, frowning and not speaking, and the rest of the people looked strange,

"What has Zheng Yan been doing in the past two days?Why didn't you come to school?", Wen Renhu finally opened his mouth, but there seemed to be some reproach and displeasure in his tone.

Ye Qingcheng somehow felt a little weak-hearted, and said with a smile, "We don't know, oh, by the way, I heard Qingwan say that she went to the Hui clan, and two girls were arranged over there, and she went back to settle the matter, isn't it sixteen after the New Year, and she has also reached the age of engagement, I heard that the two girls were promised to Zheng Yan when they were very young, and many people here were also in Zhang Luo some time ago, and when they went to An Guogong to say that the matchmaker had not been broken, the clan was probably afraid of extraneous branches, so they recruited him back in advance."

Wen Renhu's frowning brows did not mean to stretch, and he seemed to be a little unwilling to say, "Aren't they all engaged after twenty now?"

After the words, several people looked at the girl with a strange expression, in fact, they all knew that what Ye Qingcheng said was the most reasonable explanation, the atmosphere of Da Zhou over the years is indeed engaged in his twenties, if it is a monk who is engaged, he will only officially marry in his thirties, because since he has chosen to form a family with marriage, it is not only a matter of partners, but also Taoist couples, naturally they need to know more, only ordinary people will get married after a year or two of engagement, these are not counted, with Zheng Yan's situation, the clan will definitely arrange a partner for him, which is not surprising.

Wen Renhu thought about it and suddenly smiled, lying in his friend's ear and exhaling like an orchid, "Concubine Xue, your heartbeat just now was very abnormal."

Concubine Xue's expression was calm, and she just shook her head.

The two girls came out of the dining hall, and everyone at the table looked at each other, Zheng Tong looked puzzled, shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be, where is this, aren't Wen Renhu and Concubine Xue already famous?

Lu Cunyan shook her head and said, "Although I said that, those are all rumors after all... Well, I don't understand either",

Several people looked at Ye Qingcheng, who had been thoughtful, Ye Qingcheng came back to his senses and suddenly his eyes were full of excitement, and he lowered his voice and said, "Radish and cabbage have their own love, and sometimes there is not so much reason to talk about emotional matters, especially for women, but these two people are obviously reasonable people, so the question is, why did they deliberately come to us to inquire?"

Qi Wending was the first to speak, "They like Xiao Yan",

Lu Cunyan raised her hand and knocked him a chestnut, "Didn't you say it just now? These two people are reasonable and understand the world, if you want me to say that they must be their sisters and sisters",

Wang Zongyuan had already started to eat the second meal, and when he saw several people, he looked at him and said vaguely, "Wen Renhu has liked Xiao Yan since he was a child, and Concubine Xue and Xiao Yan are baby relatives",

The rest of the people exclaimed in unison, and for a while many people looked over, Wang Zongyuan scratched his head and said with a smile, "I made it up, haven't I been making it up recently, why are they only allowed to make trouble!"

Ye Qingcheng nodded thoughtfully.

The two girls were strolling around in the martial arts arena, which naturally attracted the attention of many teenagers, and the older ones in the "backyard" also came to say hello.

"How's it going, does my brother have a chance?", Wen Renhu asked slyly,

Concubine Xue was looking at the flowing clouds in the distance, retracted her gaze and shook her head, "No,

Wen Renhu blinked his eyes and chuckled, "My brother is so pitiful, do you really want to be small for others?"

Concubine Xue smiled without answering, plucked a leaf and put it on the girl's shoulder.