Chapter 52: Angry at the crown
Time flies, three days have passed in a blink of an eye, this day is almost noon, Zhu Quan came out of the school and walked side by side with Xu Ying on the way home, in the past two days, Qin Zhuofeng secretly protected the two but never found Jiang Xian's traces, so he no longer followed Yang Xu and the two, at this time the vigilance of the two of them subsided, and he also relaxed and led the "dark clouds and snow" to walk back.
In the middle of the line, he heard a person beside him call softly: "Your Highness stays." ”
Zhu Quan couldn't help but wonder in his heart, and said in his heart: "I don't know who it is?" Do you know me? It turned out that he was pretending to be a plainly dressed teenager at this time, and it was difficult to identify him if he was not an acquaintance.
Yang Xu and the others turned their heads to look, but saw a gorgeously dressed young man standing beside him, it was Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo.
Li Jinglong bowed his hand to Zhu Quan and said in a low voice: "The junior brother is asking His Highness for something important, and it is really a coincidence that he doesn't want to meet here." He is also a smart person, seeing that Zhu Quan disguised himself as an ordinary teenager, it was obvious that he did not want to reveal the identity of the prince, so he just gave his hand to salute at the moment, but did not pay homage on this street.
Zhu Quan smiled and said strangely: "I don't know if there is anything I can help with Brother Xian?" In the past few days, he has become more and more familiar with the "dark clouds and snow", and he loves this good horse very much, and he unconsciously has a good impression of Li Jinglong, who gave away the horse.
Li Jinglong turned his head to look at Xu Ying beside him at this time, and said strangely in his heart: "This woman has a beautiful appearance but a bit of heroism, but it doesn't matter, the most strange thing is that her appearance is somewhat similar to Marshal Xu Da, the Duke of Wei." Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask softly: "Dare to ask the girl and Uncle Xu Shuai what to call them?" It turns out that Li Jinglong is a famous general who followed the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world, Li Wenzhong's only son, he is quite familiar with Xu Da since he was a child, and even the title is with his deceased father Li Wenzhong, not Wei Guogong, but Xu Shuai, Uncle Xu.
Xu Ying saw that Li Jinglong had recognized his identity, so he nodded and said softly: "That's my father." ”
Li Jinglong heard that Xu Ying had admitted his family background, and he couldn't help but blush, showing a slight embarrassment, and looked at Zhu Quan, but he looked like he wanted to say something.
Xu Ying watched coldly, knowing that this Li Jinglong must have something to ask Zhu Quan for, but because he couldn't open his mouth, he immediately turned his head and whispered to Zhu Quan: I'll wait for you in front, and then go to a vendor selling combs in front of me and pick it up.
Seeing Li Jinglong's mysterious look, Zhu Quan couldn't help but be even more curious, and said with a smile: "Anyway, what is the matter?" ”
Seeing Xu Ying walking away, Li Jinglong put his mind at ease and said in a low voice: "The junior brother wants to ask His Royal Highness to say a few kind words for the younger brother in front of the saint, so that I can also serve in the army." It turned out that although he inherited the title of Duke of Cao Guo from his father Li Wenzhong, he only had a noble family lineage, and his status was above the marquis and earl, but he did not hold any actual position in the court and had no real power.
Zhu Quan was strange in his heart, and said secretly: "When the army is being mobilized here to prepare for an expedition to Liaodong, this kid Li Jinglong took the initiative to ask Ying to serve in the army, is there another reason for it?" Thinking like this in his heart, he looked Li Jinglong up and down, and said with a smile: "It's rare that Cao Guogong is loyal to the country." Speaking of this, he paused for words and said in a low voice: "Brother Xian, do you know that Lan Yu's kid has been stationed in Liaodong for a long time, but he has been called to Beijing recently, but why?" ”
Li Jinglong couldn't help but be a little amused when he heard Zhu Quan call the twenty-year-old Lan Yu as a kid, but he secretly gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and said in a low voice: "The younger brother just wants to serve the imperial court and make contributions on the battlefield." "Although he is the son of a high-ranking cadre who is used to wandering in Yingtian City, after all, he has a general father who gallops on the battlefield, and he has also heard about military affairs since he was a child.
Zhu Quan looked Li Jinglong up and down with a strange gaze, but did not speak. Although he didn't have much contact with Li Jinglong, his intuition told him that this kid didn't seem to be the kind of young man who was eager to go to the battlefield to make contributions.
Li Jinglong looked at Zhu Quan's rather suspicious gaze at a loss, approached him, and said with a smile: "Some people say that junior brother I can't be named on the gold list, and I can't make contributions on the battlefield." The younger brother was very unconvinced, so he wanted to serve in the army, proving that Li was not useless. ”
Zhu Quan couldn't help but laugh and said, "Say you? If you don't say you will lose a piece of your meat, what do you care about him? ”
Li Jinglong heard him say this, and when he said this, his face couldn't help but blush, and there was a look of embarrassment in his expression, and he mustered up the courage to say: "It's okay for others to say this, but it's a pity that this person has such a comment on the younger brother, but it is unbearable." ”
Zhu Quan saw Li Jinglong's strange expression, and suddenly flashed in his mind, two days ago, when he and he traveled to the Qinhuai River at night, Li Jinglong asked to see Ji Qingbo, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, and his lost expression after being politely refused, he couldn't help but suddenly realize, and he couldn't help but laugh after he understood it in his heart, and wanted to cancel him a few words, but seeing that the other party had a bitter smile on his face, he was grateful for the other party's gift of horses, so he stopped making sarcastic remarks and said with a smile: "If I have the opportunity, I will definitely say a few words for the virtuous brother." ”
Li Jinglong was overjoyed in his heart, and he bowed his hand again and again, and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your success." With that, he fled. I was afraid that Zhu Quan couldn't bear it anymore and made fun of himself.
Zhu Quan looked at Li Jinglong's back as he disappeared into the crowd, shook his head, and walked to Xu Ying's side.
Xu Ying walked side by side with him and headed towards King Ning's mansion. After walking for a while, he couldn't bear it anymore and asked in a low voice, "Do you really plan to help him?" ”
When Zhu Quan heard her ask, he couldn't help but say, "You know too?" ”
Xu Ying glanced at him, snorted, and said, "You two sneaky words, you insist on drilling into my ears, but what can I do?" ”
Zhu Quan nodded and said, "Yes, yes." Speaking of this, he couldn't help but smile and said: "It's rare that Li Jinglong, this kid is angry at the crown, if he can make contributions with the army expedition, maybe he can impress Ji Qingbo." I'm also an adult beauty, why not? ”
Xu Ying heard him suddenly come up with such a nondescript sentence "Chong Guan is angry and red-faced". I couldn't help but laugh, seeing that not far ahead, it was the small bridge where Zhu Quan and Ling Xuan, who had an outstanding demeanor, met to return the umbrella, and suddenly felt unhappy in his heart, sighed, and said in a low voice: "I have no contact with the noble children in Yingtian City on weekdays, but I also know that like Brother Lan Yulan, my younger brother Huizu They have always looked down on this only son of General Li Wenzhong, and even when my father was chatting, he shook his head and sighed when he talked about him. I thought he was just a well-known pompous disciple in Yingtian City, but what I saw today was much beyond my expectations. ”
Zhu Quan had a good impression of Li Jinglong, and when he heard Xu Ying call Lan Yu Brother Lan, he couldn't help but say: "The person that Lan Yu doesn't like may not be bad, I don't think this Li Jinglong is as unbearable as you think." He heard Xu Ying's words, and thought that she was very disdainful of Li Jinglong's behavior of asking for him today.
Xu Ying shook her head when she heard this, and said softly: "Li Jinglong is always different from this person, but at least one point is stronger than many conceited people. ”
Zhu Quan knew that she was quite strong by nature, and today he actually had such an evaluation of that Li Jinglong, and he couldn't help but be surprised.
Xu Ying turned her head to look at him and said, "Li Jinglong and Ji Qingbo have such a disparity in identity, but they did not bully each other, but treated each other politely, and acted like this for a dusty woman. I'm afraid that even if it is a celebrity with outstanding literary talents, the generals who crisscross the battlefield may not be able to do it, right? ”
Zhu Quan came from the modern era of emphasizing equality between men and women, and the concept was not as deep-rooted as the ancients, and he didn't understand what Xu Ying's words meant for a while.
Xu Ying saw that Zhu Quan was very disgusted with calling Lan Yu Brother Lan, and was in a slightly better mood, and said with a smile: "You must know Li Jinglong's father, General Li Wenzhong had a good reputation in the army during his lifetime, and he can be regarded as a commander who is on a par with his father, but the generals in the army today are afraid that they will treat Li Jinglong with three points of courtesy in person." Dukes, marquises, counts, hierarchies. is the "sincerity uncle" Liu Bowen will not die, and Yu Lu is far inferior to today's Li Jinglong. I don't know how many dignitaries in the court still want to marry their daughters to this Cao Guogong? Speaking of this, he saw Zhu Quan nodding in agreement, but on the other hand, he turned his head to look at the passing boats on the river. I couldn't help but feel unhappy in my heart, snorted, and asked, "Why are we going back home this way today?" ”
Zhu Quan heard her ask strangely, and said strangely: "Haven't we been going back this way every day these days?" ”
When Xu Ying heard him say this, she became more and more annoyed, and said coldly: "Then why do we take this road back every day?" Would it be nice to go back tomorrow on a different path? ”
Zhu Quan saw that she was suddenly annoyed, and her words were so strange, he couldn't help but wonder: "Why did you change your path?" Besides, I'm not familiar with the roads in the city. ”
Xu Ying snorted and said in a low voice: "Dulicitous, I see this, Li Jinglong is much stronger than you." With that, he turned his head and brushed his sleeves away.
Zhu Quanzhang Er King Kong was confused, and chased after him quickly inexplicably, just curious in his heart, and said in his heart: This girl's mind is really elusive, why did she pull me and Li Jinglong into a pile again?
After eating on the street, the two returned to King Ning's mansion. Before arriving at the gate of the palace, I saw a gorgeous sedan chair parked at the gate of the palace from a distance, and there were four palace maids in 28 years old around the sedan chair. There was also a group of soldiers standing next to them with axes and axes of honor, showing that important people had come to the house.