Chapter 3: The Invitation to the Gazebo
readx;? The days passed day by day, and soon it was the fifteenth day of September in 211 B.C.E. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoAt this time, there is no Mid-Autumn Festival, let alone Teacher's Day...... And the Double Ninth Festival is even more of a floating cloud god horse (the popularity of the Double Ninth Festival is a matter of the Jin and Tang dynasties. )
Except for a few days ago, there was a harvest festival in Xianyang, and after Zhang Jiashi took Xiao He and others to feel the atmosphere, there was nothing else worth Zhang Jiashi's attention.
Of course, in addition to the pain of being basically idle during the day, after Zhang Jiashi and Qi Ji started to "rekindle the old relationship" not long ago at night, Yu Ji's somewhat complaining eyes made Zhang Jiashi very helpless.
Zhang Jiashi remembered very well that he had promised a lot of terms to make the beauty smile again. The blessing of Qi people is not comfortable, and the blessing of Qi people with the way of thinking of later generations is even more so.
Zhang Jiashi didn't want to let himself regret it for the rest of his life because of this.
It can be said that except for the occasional Qi Huan'er who asks where Ying Yuelian is, Zhang Jiashi's life is very peaceful and quiet...... Even something that is worth enjoying and the noisy second generation of the rich and the second generation of officials that I like to see, nothing has happened.
So Zhang Jiashi's life, except for once...... Well, apart from the peachy incident that I'm embarrassed to say, everything seems so peaceful.
That incident was late at night on the day of the harvest festival, and Han Xin, Xiahou Ying, and Wang Ling, who returned late, were crying by their lovers or wives.
Listening to the words of these sisters-in-law, big or small, Zhang Jiashi felt a headache, because the three of them really followed Ruan Weng Shao and a few of them to do something they liked. Of course, Yao Yong and Chen Heng, who have not yet returned, are indispensable.
If it weren't for Su Teng, who was on duty at night, to bring the three of them back, it is estimated that they would have to be directly caught by the guards patrolling the city.
Looking at the three people, as well as the innocent Su Teng, Zhang Jiashi couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't know how to deal with this matter, but he knew very well that he couldn't control this matter. So, Zhang Jiashi directly scolded Han Xin and the three of them a few words, and then whispered to Xiao He: "It is difficult for a Qing official to judge family affairs." After that, Zhang Jiashi simply went back to the room. Xiao He and Chen Ping, who looked at each other, were left behind, and reluctantly continued to take care of these things.
As for the final result, Zhang Jiashi did not understand. But looking at the peaceful scene the next day, Zhang Jiashi felt that this kind of life, in addition to being boring, was quite good.
However, he never imagined that on this day on September 15, he would meet two people, two people who occupied a lot of affection in his life.
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"......" slapped Zhang Jiashi, who yawned for a long time, stroked the fur on the white wolf's back with his left hand, and said a sentence: "It's boring." ”
Yu Ji and Qi Ji covered their mouths and chuckled, and stopped talking.
Compared with Zhang Jiashi, Yu Miaoyi and Qi Ji have their own things to do. Yu Ji taught Qi Ji and Qi Huan'er to read and write, and Qi Ji taught Yu Ji and Qi Huan'er to dance. Of course, Zhang Jiashi is not too interested in this ancient light yarn dance.
He occasionally misses Ying Yuelian, who has not seen anyone for a while, although he doesn't know why she doesn't come out, but Zhang Jiashi himself knows very well that Xianyang is no better than other places, if Ying Yuelian can sneak out every day, this is really a strange thing. Therefore, except for occasionally, like Qi Huan'er, thinking about what Ying Yuelian was doing, Zhang Jiashi did not fill his mood with the table,
However, Yu Miaoyi and Qi Ji both knew very well that Zhang Jiashi was just a dead duck with a hard mouth.
At this moment, a man with a sword wearing a fine linen light black power suit came over, clasped his fists and asked Zhang Jiashi: "My master has invited my son to go outside for a chat." ”
Although this person's tone was calm, Zhang Jiashi could feel that this person's strength was not worse than him, and even slightly better. He didn't believe that such a person, or the forces behind him, would have any conspiracy. Because this kind of handwriting is also a little too big.
Therefore, Zhang Jiashi nodded, and after comforting Yu Miaoyi's three daughters, Zhang Jiashi took the white wolf, followed behind the other party, and left the tavern.
Outside the tavern, a carriage had been parked, and Zhang Jiashi knew that the other party wanted him to sit in the carriage.
And a few of the men leading the horses, as well as the coachman, were not bad. It can be said that in this way, Zhang Jiashi was relieved, and the doubts in his heart continued to increase. Because he couldn't think of anyone who would do that. Zhang Jiashi subconsciously ignored a certain emperor through the ages, because the other party directly asked someone to summon him, he had to go to the Xianyang Palace, and he had no ability to resist at all.
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In fact, Zhang Jiashi, who got into the carriage, guessed wrong. The one who wanted to meet him was the first emperor of the ages, the first emperor Yingzheng. However, at this time, Ying Zheng was in a pavilion north of Weishui, listening to a young woman in palace costume, playing the piano.
At this time, Ying Zheng was wearing a dark purple fine linen robe, sitting behind a low table, drinking tea silently.
More than a dozen men in strong suits are guarding this pavilion.
"Xi'er, do you know what I brought you out for?" Ying Zheng slowly picked up a jade wine lord, looked at the pale yellow liquid inside, and asked his daughter, Ying Yuexi, the fifth princess of Daqin, who was playing the guqin.
"The daughter doesn't know, but she can play the piano for her father, and Xi'er is already satisfied. Ying Yuexi whispered these words, but did not stop the movements at hand, and the coherent sound of the piano melodiously sounded in an area around this pavilion.
Ying Zheng shook his head, and then said, "Don't you have your own ideas?" Xi'er, for example, if you have to meet a lover, I have ideas. ”
"Zheng ......"
The note was interrupted by a long note that was out of harmony.
Ying Yuexi quickly came back to her senses, she continued to play the interrupted piano note, and said softly: "Father, Xi'er didn't dare to have this idea. ”
"Ridiculous. Men should get married, women should get married, this is the way of yin and yang, if you don't want to, wait for a while after the guests leave, and then do the calculation. After Ying Zheng finished saying this, he no longer spoke, but poured himself a drink.
In fact, the arc of the corner of Ying Zheng's mouth illustrates his inner thoughts:
"If you are chaotic, you will be confused, and the authorities will be confused. ”
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I don't know how long it was, Ying Zheng glanced at a carriage slowly coming from the south and a few people on horseback, he didn't speak, but silently watched the carriage with his eyes.
Of course, Ying Yuexi also saw such a situation, but she didn't say anything, she could only sigh softly. Because she knew very well that few people could change his mind about what her father had decided.
So, she's waiting. Sometimes, born in the emperor's house, many things are already predestined, and her fate is the same.
Suddenly, she remembered something, that is, the person she talked about the most when Ying Yuelian came to her from time to time these days. She sighed silently in her heart: "If only I could be like Yuelian and find my crush." ”
Although her father said the words that let her make up her own mind, she knew very well that she would not go against her father's will...... There are times when a person's character has determined the outcome of many things.
So, she didn't dare to raise her head, but silently continued to caress the strings......
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After Zhang Jiashi got out of the carriage with the white wolf, he saw a middle-aged man who was about fifty years old, giving him a kind of momentum that was not angry and arrogant, and was silently looking at him.
And a man stopped Zhang Jiashi, hoping that he would be able to untie the sword. However, the middle-aged man said calmly: "It's okay, let them all come in." ”
"Yes, Childe, please. This person made a gesture of please to Zhang Jiashi.
Zhang Jiashi nodded and walked into the pavilion with the white wolf.
Ying Zheng didn't stand up, but said a sentence: "Sit down." ”
Zhang Jiashi glanced at the middle-aged man, listened to the piano sound that seemed to be a little chaotic, sat opposite the middle-aged man, and then said, "I don't know what the elders are looking for Zhang?"
Ying Zheng listened to this sentence and shook his head, he showed a very disapproving expression towards Zhang Jiashi's words: "Can't you find someone to talk about something if you have nothing to do?"
"Of course not. Zhang Jiashi shook his head.
"That's it. I'm looking for you this time mainly to ask you something. Ying Zheng looked at Zhang Jiashi very calmly: "You just tell the truth." ”
"Of course, elders. Zhang Jiashi smiled slightly.
"I heard that you went to Kanto, I don't know how you feel?" Ying Zheng raised the wine jug, slowly poured another jade wine jue, and put it in front of Zhang Jiashi.
Zhang Jiashi said something that made Yingzheng's breathing become a little short: "There is chaos in the world. Maybe when Your Majesty is alive, everything will still be maintained. But once His Majesty returns to heaven...... The world will be in chaos. ”
Zhang Jiashi said, gently picked up the wine, and then drank it slowly.
He didn't expect that this wine was much better than the Yu family's wine. However, what he didn't expect was that because he said this sentence unintentionally, it almost made him go to hell.
But Ying Zheng looked at Zhang Jiashi, who was drinking, and his eyes were very complicated. He didn't know if his identity was exposed. But he could hear that what Zhang Jiashi said was sincere.
Loyalty is against the ear, and the truth is also against the ear. For Ying Zheng, he is naturally very clear about such things. Therefore, after Zhang Jiashi put down the wine, Yingzheng also fell into silence.
Zhang Jiashi did not speak, but waited quietly.
The sound of the piano echoed leisurely inside and outside the pavilion, but Zhang Jiashi didn't see that the woman beside him, who should have lowered her head and stroked the piano, was looking at him with a very surprised look.
In Ying Yuexi's eyes, Zhang Jiashi, a bold but man of the same age as her, has a sense of curiosity that is not afraid of her father's might.
The young man in front of him, not to mention how high his cultivation was, if his father was willing, he might not even have a chance to draw his sword, and he would be killed on the spot. She even had a feeling of worrying about the other party.
The sound of the piano became slightly chaotic again, but Zhang Jiashi and Ying Zheng had no time to pay attention to this at this time.
After the two glanced at each other, Ying Zheng said, "This brother, why did you say this?"
Zhang Mou thought that His Majesty was powerful and ruled the country according to law was inevitable. However, the law is simply unacceptable to the people who have been in the territory for a short time, which gives some ill-intentioned people an opportunity to take advantage of it. If His Majesty is not there, the Kanto region will inevitably be full of smoke. ”
(Whether the laws of the Qin Dynasty were strict or not should be a matter of principle.) The rhetoric of "the world has been suffering for a long time" can't stand scrutiny in fact. Because there is no information that the Qin Dynasty ruled more than 50 years in the region and gathered people to rebel. Hexi County, the area west of Sanchuan County, was in fact one of several battlefields where the Qin army fought fiercely with the so-called Tianxia Righteous Army before the peasant uprising at the end of Qin and Zhang Han's dispatch of troops to the east of Hangu Pass and Wuguan. It can be said that the support of the people in these areas for the Qin State is still quite good. )
"Hmm......" Ying Zheng gently picked up the wine jug, poured a full wine jue for Zhang Jiashi, and continued to ask: "If you can admire Tianyan, do you have a good way to put an end to such problems?"
Zhang Jiashi replied directly this time, but after looking at Ying Zheng for a while, he shook his head: "The elder's words can be said to make Zhang embarrassed." ”
Of course, Ying Zheng knew what Zhang Jiashi meant by being embarrassed, and he couldn't help but raise his voice: "Little brother, what is there to be afraid of when your words come out of your mouth and into my ears?"
Since the middle-aged people said so, Zhang Jiashi opened his mouth, and suddenly remembered something, so he looked to the side, and as a result, he happened to see that the singer who played the piano was also looking at him. However, soon, the latter hurriedly lowered his head, while Zhang Jiashi was immersed in astonishment.
If there were people who were familiar with Zhang Jiashi at this time, Zhang Jiashi would definitely say a sentence: "I think, I fell in love at first sight." ”
Because the other party's appearance and temperament directly attracted Zhang Jiashi's attention.
Ying Zheng was very satisfied with this situation at the beginning, but after a long time, Zhang Jiashi had not come back to his senses, which had to make Ying Zheng mutter: "It seems that what Lian'er said is right." ”
"Ahem!" Ying Zheng coughed very simply, and only after Zhang Jiashi turned around did he snort lightly.
Zhang Jiashi grabbed the hair on the back of his head embarrassedly, he looked at Yingzheng, a middle-aged man with a mysterious identity, and didn't seem to have any other thoughts, so he took a deep breath before saying:
"This matter is difficult to ascend to the sky, once Your Majesty returns to the sky, then, although the prince of Fusu is the supervisor of the Northern Army, he is assisted by General Mengda...... He should be the best candidate for His Majesty's successor. Even if everything is a matter of course, then Fusu Gongzi is actually not enough to convince the public, let alone deter the remnants of the Six Kingdoms. The benevolent can defend the world, but they cannot fight the world. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Jiashi, looking at Ying Zheng's face was cloudy, he didn't say any more.
In fact, Ying Zheng himself is very clear about this problem. Fusu is the one who should become the crown prince of Daqin. But knowing his son Mo Ruo's father, Fusu's character is not suitable to be his ideal successor. What he wants is a successor with ambition to expand.
Unfortunately, there was no such person among his sons.
Ying Zheng was speechless for a long time, and Zhang Jiashi did not interrupt Ying Zheng's thinking, but waited silently. At this time, he didn't know that because of his words, the sound of the piano, which should have been pleasant, came to an abrupt end because the strings broke.
Ying Yuexi has never seen such a bold person. Because even if it is a minister like Li Si and a person like her eldest brother Fusu, no one dares to say such a thing in front of her father.
It can be said that if this person was ordered to be killed by the angry father, Ying Yuexi would not be surprised at all.
But she couldn't help but feel a feeling that she had never felt before.
She wanted to help, but she knew she couldn't say anything, she didn't have anything to say.
Time passed slowly in the rare silence of three people with different thoughts.
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I don't know how long it has been, Ying Zheng took a deep look at Zhang Jiashi, he didn't know if the bastard in front of him was a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, or whether he was born with a tendon, or he didn't know his identity, so he would say such a thing.
But he is not a tyrant, and he is not a man who likes to kill for pleasure. So, he picked up the flask and filled it again with Zhang Jiashi and his wine jue. Make a gesture of please.
After the two finished drinking, Ying Zheng looked at Zhang Jiashi and did not continue the topic just now, but said, "Does the little brother have an official position now?"
Ying Zheng is asking knowingly. In fact, Zhang Jiashi has the title of Zhonglang and should be guarding the palace. However, he never let Zhang Jiashi go to Xianyang Palace, the most important thing is that he has his own plans.
"This ...... Zhang was valued by His Majesty and was fortunate to be added to the post of Zhonglang under the commander of Xianyang Gonglang. Zhang Jiashi said this "legitimate occupation" that he has never received a penny now. In fact, according to Ruan Weng Shao, a few people who come to fight the autumn wind from time to time, Zhang Jiashi should go to the palace for the record.
However, the result was also obvious, Gonggong Xi, who was supposed to take him to Xianyang Palace, never appeared again after returning to the palace with Ying Yuelian. Moreover, the Xianyang Palace did not exclude anyone from talking to him about this matter. In a sense, Zhang Jiashi can now be said to be an unlucky guy in Daqin who has a real job, but he doesn't have to go to work, and he also has no salary......
Therefore, when Zhang Jiashi finished saying this, a trace of blush appeared on his face.
And Ying Zheng didn't care, he nodded slightly, made a gesture of please again, and drank the contents of the cup with Zhang Jiashi again.
Ying Zheng, who put down the wine lord, did not add any more wine, but said a sentence: "The interest is exhausted, and this exchange with the little brother is in vain to invite you sincerely." ”
If Zhang Jiashi hadn't heard Yingzheng's words, then he would be too stupid. So he stood up, pinned his sword, and bowed his hand to Ying Zheng: "Zhang is grateful for the invitation of the elders, if he is destined for the future, Zhang should invite the elders to taste good wine." ”
Ying Zheng nodded and did not speak again.
But after Zhang Jiashi left the pavilion, he heard a sentence: "Little brother, I don't know if this girl is good?"
Zhang Jiashi's figure stopped, and then he said a sentence: "Slender people, dreaming, dissatisfied with the elders, Zhang can be said to be love at first sight." ”
"Oh. Ying Zheng glanced at his daughter, whose face was quickly flushed, and the corners of her mouth showed a hint of arc.
But Zhang Jiashi did not look back, but walked directly to the carriage when he came, and boarded the carriage.
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After this conversation, Zhang Jiashi didn't find out what trouble he had, and his life became calm and boring again. Except for doing something inhumane with Qi Ji at night, the days are the same as before again.
However, on September 29, Zhang Jiashi saw his father-in-law again. Of course, this time, Father-in-law Xi is on business.
However, this time, the prince announced a decree instead of the previous book or edict.
Content?
In addition to a large amount of nonsense, there is only one core meaning, that is, Zhang Jiashi was ordered to attend the great court meeting on the first day of October two days later.
Zhang Jiashi was stunned, he didn't know why this happened. And Father-in-law Xi showed a smile after Zhang Jiashi took the decree and stood up: "Zhang Zhonglang Jane is in the emperor's heart, when the time comes, don't forget to like this humble person." ”
Zhang Jiashi nodded with a wry smile and sent his father-in-law out of the tavern......
Looking at the background of the team leaving towards the north of the road, Zhang Jiashi, who was holding a copy of the decree in his hand, had to trot back to the floor where he had been chartered, looking for his own people to discuss.
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