Chapter 10: Apathy
The sky was bright, Zheng Yan was awakened by a soft voice, barely opened his eyes and looked at Tianguang to prepare to sleep for a while, and begged vaguely, "Good Yue'er, call me again in a quarter of an hour."
Ying Yue lifted the quilt and said softly, "No, I want to go into the palace today to ask for peace, and if I am caught, it will be another reprimand."
Zheng Yan still wanted to play tricks, Ying Yue snorted and had completely lifted the quilt, Zheng Yan felt a little cold, only then did he realize that he was still naked, and hurriedly sat up with his back to Ying Yue, turning his head with a look of shame and helplessness, Ying Yue held the clothes in her hand and chuckled, "Shyness should be too old!", and reached out and pulled Zheng Yan into his arms as he spoke.
Xinluo came in with a basin, and his eyes were a little strange when he saw the scene on the bed, but his light face didn't show much.
Zheng Yan blushed and was helped by Yingyue to get dressed, today's Yingyue was very different from usual, which made him a little uncomfortable and difficult to parry. Walked to the basin shelf and made eye contact with Xinluo, Xinluo either didn't say it, or shook his head slightly, Yingyue was tidying up the quilt by the bedside, and said, "It's too late to eat breakfast, remember to take the money bag and go to the door to eat something"
Said hello to the porter Lao Liu and walked out of the gate, the sun had not risen yet, but there were already many pedestrians on the street, Zheng Yan took a deep breath, and his whole body was a little refreshed, and the morning of early autumn was comfortable.
Not far from the left hand side is the Wang family's breakfast shop, Zheng Yan and others shared a table and asked for a bowl of tofu brain and two eggs, and called Chen Youyu from the Chen Ji bun shop next door to send a drawer of four big buns with mutton filling, and quickly ate a few bites and felt that it was not enough, and asked for two fritters with the second boy of the Wang family.
The two aunts at the same table who were going to go to the west vegetable market to buy vegetables smiled and said that it was the age when they were not hungry for food, and their eyes were full of like, and they said that they wanted to introduce their daughter-in-law to Zheng Yan, Zheng Yan smiled shyly and said that the family has it, and the child daughter-in-law is shy and does not go out often. The aunt said that it was a pity, but her face was a little unconvinced, and she usually inquired about the child's undecided family affairs, after all, his grandfather often played chess with a group of neighbors under the big willow tree.
Now fifteen-year-old Zheng Yan can be said to have grown up in these neighborhoods, usually the wind evaluation about the temperament has always been excellent, the appearance is not bad, and the body is getting stronger and stronger, although it is said that he lives in the Anguo Mansion with his grandfather and the following people, but how to say that he is also studying in the Guozijian, and the future is naturally limitless, and occasionally you can see the children and grandchildren of the Anguo Gong's family, presumably the relationship is not bad, I heard that there is still practice, and it can be regarded as a very good condition in this market, which is much stronger than the peers of the few high-ranking families who always hold shelves on the street。
Therefore, Zheng Yanhe is already a talented young master of the Wen family, Wen Zhang, is almost the most talked about teenager on this small street, the Wen family has a matchmaker from time to time to propose marriage, and ordinary people in Anguo Mansion can't enter, but every time the grandfather comes out to play chess, he can also meet one or two matchmakers with flowers and grease on his head, every time the grandfather happily says to others that it is very good, and he does not shirk it.
Originally, men should marry and women should marry, and when they reach the age, they will naturally Zhang Luo and don't need to go on the pole to find it early, but in this Luoyang City, even the people who live in the market have a good vision, and they want to be able to get ahead and worship the prime minister, and the women follow their husbands to get a fate;
The population market near Xiangguo Temple in the south of the city is also a very important reason, a woman with an innocent appearance can buy dozens of hundreds of taels of silver, and the average person can save enough for five or six years, so the local family in Luoyang is very anxious.
Because Yingyue Xinluo, and don't want to have too many ties, so Zheng Yan has no thoughts about marrying a daughter-in-law, and even has some resistance, but he also knows that he can only think about it, and when he is old, he will still be arranged to have a family affair, maybe it is three doors, the prince and the grandson must have at least one wife and two equal wives before obtaining the title, and there was still some room for negotiation before, after all, they are mostly monks, and too many women will definitely involve energy, in recent years, somehow, the attitude of the guards in the Zongren Mansion has become more and more tough, and last year King Zhao's third son Zheng Zhen was imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion prison because he did not want to marry a wife,
Zheng Yan went into that prison when he was a child, sewage rotting rats, insects and ant diseases, only the unexpected, there was no arrangement they couldn't arrange, the five major prisons, the "water prison" and "fire prison" not to mention, the "ghost prison" was cold all day long, the cold wind in the "ice prison" never stopped, the "black prison" was forced to die and silent, and there was no such place in the criminal department, let alone the Dali Division.
After eating in a hurry and settling the bill, Zheng Yan hurried to Guozijian, it was indeed a little late today.
Out of the small street on the main road, walking and walking heard a carriage sound, just casually glanced back, found that it was actually the one I had seen on the way to school many times, the coachman was a burly middle-aged man with a solemn face, at first glance it was a practitioner, and he was definitely a monk, and the realm was not low. The coachman was also looking at Zheng Yan, and the two of them crossed their eyes relative to each other, although there was no meaning in their eyes, Zheng Yan still felt that the coachman must know him, and he had something to do with it.
However, Zheng Yan didn't think much about it, or didn't bother to think about it, and listened to the discussion of people on the street, saying that the Song family was forced last night, the courtyard wall was broken several big holes, and the attic of the house was also destroyed a lot, and there were also injured, and some said that there were dead people, in short, it alarmed the Tai Hospital;
Whoever in Nancheng suffered, and when he fell asleep, the house collapsed, the martial servants of the Criminal Department, and the children of the martial arts family, were also beaten half to death in front of the family, and Li Dazhu, who was on an errand in Luoyang Mansion, broke an arm, etc., Zheng Yan was a little puzzled, he was so tired that he did sleep relatively dead last night, and he didn't hear anyone in the mansion talk about it this morning, what is the situation? Could it have something to do with the vision a few days ago?
An elegant and beautiful girl in the carriage was holding her cheeks and was distracted, and suddenly a voice came from outside the curtain of the car, "Miss, the head of the house wrote last night to ask why he didn't go over."
The girl came back to her senses, hesitated, and asked softly, "Did Grandpa say anything?"
The voice outside the car sounded again, "It's nothing, it's just that Young Master Xuehai will come over at this time next year, and the young lady will lead the recognition door at that time, and... Long nights and dreams",
The girl picked up her legs in her school robe, rested her already thin chin on her knees, seemed a little lonely and helpless, and said softly after a while, "It's me who is willful, otherwise my uncle and aunt will go back after the New Year."
"Miss, don't say that, we're also worried that Miss won't be used to eating here, it's okay to go over, anyway, the head of the house and the master didn't say anything, and the master was even a little unhappy that Miss came over", the voice outside the car was hearty.
Zheng Yan and the arithmetic gentleman entered the school house with their front and back feet, and the position in front was unsurprisingly full, and the last row of Ye Qingcheng They were squeezing their eyebrows at themselves, Zheng Yan had to walk over there, and accidentally noticed that Song Wen, who was still sitting in front, pale and a little haggard, was injured?
Ye Qingcheng seemed to endure a little hard, and remembered that as soon as Mr. left, he grabbed Zheng Yan and talked about last night, knowing that Zheng Yan would never take the initiative to inquire about anything outside, in fact, this is also a helpless thing, with Zheng Yan's current situation, the leakage of his mind will always be suspicious of people like this, this is also one of the clumsy methods, Zheng Yan is very reluctant to think about this.
From Ye Qingcheng, Zheng Yan understood a little, but there are many mysteries, the elders in the family will reveal some things, but they will never say it all at once, one is to let the young people think for themselves, the other is to be afraid of being ambitious or keen on power calculations, and the rest is the real need for secrecy, the cultivation of children by the powerful of the family has always been gradual and even cautious, Zheng Yan couldn't help but look at Song Wen who was still reading in front of him, and didn't notice that Ye Qingcheng's eyes around him were a little strange.
After another class of "University", it was time for lunch, Zheng Yan did not go to the canteen with a few friends as before, but walked to the palace through a sandwich road in the "backyard" of Guozijian.
The sandwich road is one zhang wide, about eighty zhang long, there are lush trees in the high walls on both sides, and occasionally you can hear the sound of children playing, that is where the sect is located, most of the rest are quiet and even dead and silent, some are the courtyards of the Zongren Mansion, some are other unknown places, very mysterious, Zheng Yan was still studying in the Zongxue when he often secretly climbed the high wall with other brothers, trying to explore this piece of the courtyard, a group of newborn calves imagined all kinds of mysteries, and said that they wanted to explore the strange, and they were punished by the Zongren Mansion, of course, they also accidentally saw the strangeness of a scale and half a claw。
Zheng Yan somewhat enjoyed the simplicity and tranquility on the surface of the mezzanine, and seemed to be completely unaware of the two sneaky figures on the high wall behind him. The two figures gestured and pounced on Zheng Yan below at the same time, Zheng Yan shook his head helplessly, one turned around with a whirling wind, and the next moment one on the other, caught the two little guys who couldn't sneak attack.
"Brother, let me down",
"Brother, you carry me, don't hold it, it's faceless."
The tiger-headed tiger is Zheng Zhang, born to Pei Guifei, ranked twelfth among the brothers, just like an octopus crab struggling non-stop, the slightly delicate is Zheng Gu, born to the concubine, ranked thirteenth among the brothers, the two little guys are ten years old, and there is a Zheng Chen born to the eleventh cold concubine did not come, probably because they were born in the same year, the three guys are the best, and they are all close to Zheng Yan, among all the brothers, Zheng Yan only follows these three younger brothers.
"I don't have any memory, the problem of breathing hasn't been solved yet, my hands and feet are not coordinated, I won't talk about the control of the qi when I jump, I can catch the pit sparrow when I am as young as you", Zheng Yan's full brother looks,
Zheng Ji wanted to pout, but suddenly looked at the back of the road, and was stunned for a moment and shouted happily, "What a beautiful sister!
Zheng Yan put the two guys on the ground, pinched his neck, and said hatefully, "You still don't apologize?"
The two of them resisted to death, and they were still hippie smiling, and the concubine Xue Xue who came over hesitated and nodded and walked away, Zheng Yan walked behind with the two little guys and taught him earnestly, don't be so frivolous with girls, not to mention being uneducated, and easy to be disgusted by others, the two little guys were very disapproving, and said that young women like men with a hint of gentleness in their frivolity.
Zheng Yan was very speechless, isn't this Ye Qingcheng's rhetoric? I remember that at that time, I also pulled out a large number of theories to prove it, roughly meaning that a good person is a bad person if he does a bad thing, and a bad person who occasionally does a good thing is a great good person, and women are the easiest to accept the joy of suffering and will not accept the bitterness of happiness, and if there is a flaw on the jade bi, only pay attention to that flaw, so Yunyun, just when Zheng Yan and Qi Wending disagreed, several girls around him agreed, Zheng Yan could only sigh that women were troublesome, and he had no interest in accompanying Ye Qingcheng to hook up with girls.
Concubine Xue walked to the end of the road and said something to a red-clothed eunuch and walked in, Zheng Yan naturally would not be surprised and curious, after all, she was the daughter of Taitai Taishou, and the two little guys around her had already brought the topic to the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet not long after.
It's very simple to go to the emperor to say goodbye, usually three or five or even more brothers and sisters go together, just say a few words and leave, and then go to the harem to ask the queen and their respective mothers and concubines, sometimes the emperor will also leave a few older princes to take a course of study, or discuss some current affairs, Zheng Yan rarely joins in the fun, that person almost never asks him anything, in the eyes of ordinary people, the emperor who is always majestic has the same attitude towards all princes, but Zheng Yan knows that it is different, at least he is indifferent to himself, and he is the same for him,
He didn't protect his mother, and there were many people who went to tea and cool, and the grandfather said that his mother was not really close to the clan back then, and a lot of things he did were to reconcile the increasingly acute contradictions between that person and the clan, and in the end, I don't know if this really caused him to be suspicious and alienated, and I don't know if my mother took the initiative to apply to participate in the demon sealing war because of the depression of not being understood, and finally did not come back,
Zheng Yan didn't hate him, probably because of the subtle role of his grandfather, of course, he didn't like and get close, but he was a father, so he was just indifferent.
There seems to be a temporary small court meeting today, the princes and princesses are gathered on the platform outside the Qinzheng Palace, Zheng Yan saw that Concubine Xue, who came in early, was standing with the fourth brother Zheng Shi and the sixth brother Zheng Ke, and there were Zheng Zhu and Zheng Xuandu next to her, just after the New Year, when she first came to Luoyang to enter the country's prison, I remember that there were rumors that she was going to marry the fifth prince or the sixth prince with her second sister, and I haven't heard of any movement after more than half a year, is it because of Wen Rengui?
Concubine Xue looked at Zheng Yan, somehow, Zheng Xuandu and Zheng Zhu looked over almost at the same time, so Zheng Shi and Zheng Ke next to them also looked over, but their expressions were a little surprised, Zheng Yan pretended not to see it, lying on the white jade railing on the side of the platform like a man's back, what is the situation? It can't be a joke about the two stinky boys on the road just now? Look at this girl is not such a boring person!
Zheng Ji and Zheng Gu didn't know where to run, and Zheng Yan was lying on the railing alone, full of inexplicability.
There was a sound of footsteps behind him, "Starling, have you been busy with your studies lately?", the girl's voice was clear and beautiful,
This time it was Zheng Yan's turn to be surprised, but fortunately he didn't show it on his face, his sister has been quiet and independent since she was a child, rarely warm and active with her brothers and sisters, and only Zheng Zhu can be close to her, it seems that many things are very strange today, "Oh, Xuandu, it's okay, that's it, what about you?",
None of the princesses went to school in the country, and after leaving the sect, they either returned to the clan or entered a primary school in the harem.
Zheng Xuandu smiled and said that it was the same, and then the two of them didn't seem to know what to say.
Zheng Yan was a little helpless, they were really brothers and sisters, they were all people who couldn't chat, why were the rest of the people so lively! After thinking about it quickly, he had to ask, "What happened just now?"
Zheng Xuandu shook his head and said, "I don't know, I don't understand, so come and ask the starling, is the starling familiar with the concubine of the snow?"
Zheng Yan also shook his head, "I'm not familiar, I haven't spoken, what's wrong?"
Zheng Xuandu thought about it and smiled, "I don't know, I just think she seems to care a little about starling, well, just now, I don't know what it looks like",
The door of the Qinzheng Palace was opened, and several pavilion elders came out one after another, Zheng Yan lowered his voice and whispered, "Little girl, don't think nonsense, what do you care about, it doesn't matter if I have rough skin and thick meat, how much trouble will you bring to others with such a sentence, haven't you heard the rumors before?"
An Guogong glanced over here, and left side by side with Lord Shoufu, Zheng Xuandu had a small white conch in his small hand, and said softly, "This can be soundproofed, and others can't hear what we say", with a sly smile on his face that Zheng Yan had never seen,
Bai Yue, the eunuch in the hall, walked over and whispered that His Majesty had summoned him, and although his voice was soft, it definitely reached everyone's ears.
There was no examination today, and after a while, everyone walked out, leaving only the eldest prince, the second prince and the third prince, who came in a hurry to deal with official business.
Zheng Yan still hadn't seen those two little guys, and he hadn't been so willful when he was a child. Not far away, Zheng Shi and Zheng Xiao both wanted to invite Concubine Xuetai to the harem for dinner, but Concubine Xuefei politely refused one by one, gentle, dignified, generous and decent, every move was impeccable, and when he finally left, he seemed to glance at Zheng Yan inadvertently, Zheng Yan didn't have a reason to feel hairy in his heart, it seemed that he didn't know anything very important,
Zheng Xuandu, who came out of nowhere, said softly, "It seems that I really care, right?"
Zheng Yan shook his head and said that he didn't understand, he was never a person who could attract special attention from girls.
Zheng Xuandu said with a smile, "Many people are staring at her, and her own excellence is one aspect, and more importantly, the status of Taishou is our father's junior brother, and he is also the closest confidant, starling should be able to understand."