Volume 1: The Honest Young Man, Chapter 62
"I see that the old man is very busy these days, let's go out to play, shall we?" Nanfeng They had just returned from Yangzhou and began to come up with ideas again.
"Where do you want to go?" Fang Shi raised an eyebrow and asked.
"I want to go to Yunnan." Nan's eyes widened, and he nodded frantically.
"So far? I won't be able to come back in a few months......" Fang Shi frowned, "If the emperor knows that you don't go to the school for a few months, I'm afraid that your ass will bloom." ”
"Shhhh By the time he found out, we would have already arrived at the place, could he still send someone to arrest us? Nanfeng stopped the dangling Erlang leg and raised his eyebrows at Ouyang Qian, the meaning was very obvious, "Lao Qian, can you support us?" ”
"Didn't you just come back? If you want to play, why don't you just go to a closer place? And go so far away to play, play crazy, you! Ouyang Qian counted with his fingers, and said with a bitter face, "Little ancestor, I don't have much pocket money, I gave it to you, how will I live this life......
"I don't care, I don't care, I'm going to go out!" The south wind drummed the south together, humming and chirping, "Give me money, give me money, I want money......"
"Ah~ Okay, okay, okay, is five hundred taels enough?"
"Where's enough! What is the cost of food and accommodation! ”
"One thousand taels."
"Then don't let me bring you a souvenir!"
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"One thousand taels is enough for you to play, so much silver for me to go out ten times and spend it all!"
"Do you have a long brain? You're alone, we're several! Can it be compared? Nanfeng hammered him and rolled his eyes.
"I only have 1,000 taels for you, do you want to love it?"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
"Anyway, when you come back, your father-in-law wants to beat you, don't use me as a shield!"
"If you want to beat him, let him beat him, go for a walk, and get me money."
Ouyang Qian rubbed his shoulders and got up: "I really owe you in my last life, I saved my pocket money for so long to make a good dress for my father-in-law and Aunt Yun, what kind of bad idea do you want to go out and play......"
"The old man has so many clothes, and he still wants you to buy them for him? Bring sand to the beach! Nanfeng arched Ouyang Qian forward, Ouyang Qian smiled helplessly, "You have to be careful along the way, don't be deceived......"
"Why is there so much nonsense!" The sound of their laughter faded away.
took the silver ticket to him, Nanfeng's eyes lit up one by one, and said with a smile: "Thank you, brother." ”
Ouyang Qian was not at ease, but still advised: "You better wait for a few days for your father-in-law to get busy before you go, then he will run to the house all day long, as long as the father-in-law doesn't go to the school to check the class, there shouldn't be any big problems, and when the time comes, if you sneak out again, the father-in-law won't notice." ”
"Okay, okay, wait a few days, just wait a few days......"
Seeing that the weather was just right, Ouyang Qian also wanted to go out for a walk, and said to Yuan Zhen that he wanted to go out for a month, Yuan Zhen saw that he was tired recently, so he nodded and agreed, and gave him a thousand taels of travel expenses, Ouyang Qian took the money and rode on Chiyun and went to Duan Guo.
Ouyang Qian sent a letter to Duan Yanche Feige, saying that his father-in-law had granted him a month's leave and wanted to go to Duan Guo to find him for a drink, and Duan Yanche wrote a letter back and asked him to come to Shui Mengxuan to meet.
After getting the reply, Ouyang Qian rushed to Duan Guo non-stop, and when he arrived in Duan Guo, he found that Shui Meng Xuan was an extremely elegant and chic small garden, and when he walked inside, there were orchids and bamboos planted in it, and the fragrance of flowers was everywhere he went, and a breeze blew, Ouyang Qian couldn't help but close his eyes and smell it. There was a pavilion not far away, in which Duan Yanche was sitting and drinking, looking at the ripples on the pond attentively.
Ouyang Qian walked all the way over and shouted, "Archer! ”
Duan Yanche turned around and responded: "It's finally here, and the wine is going to be drunk by me." Duan Yanche took out a jar of fine wine from under the stone table, Ouyang Qian was immediately fascinated by the aroma of this wine, and his eyes lit up with a 'puff', "What a fragrant wine......"
Duan Yanche hooked the corners of his lips proudly, and didn't say anything, this was a fine wine he had treasured for several years, and I heard that it had been brewed for hundreds of years.
The two of them chatted about their recent situation, Duan Yanche was still a drunken fan, Ouyang Qian talked about his ideals, and the righteousness of his body and the faint glimmer in his eyes made Duan Yan shake his eyes thoroughly: "More than a year has passed, at least I am starting to get on the right track." ”
"I've heard about the dispute between Deng and Yuan, Deng is already subordinate to Yuanguo Province, and you still win this battle."
Ouyang Qian said humbly: "It was the brothers in the camp who helped me with advice, and Fang barely won." ”
"What are your ambitions?" Duan Yan stared at him intently and asked, Ouyang Qian replied, "Be the generalissimo of the Yuan Kingdom, protect the family and defend the country." "Obviously, you can be a rich idler, but you have to live in the wind and sun on the battlefield, Duan Yanche found that he couldn't guess other people's thoughts for the first time.
He picked up the bowl and touched it with Ouyang Qian, drank it all, and couldn't hide the loss in his heart, he was already in his twenties, but he didn't even have any achievements, and he didn't have anything to do. A lot of money is enough to squander his whole life, there are a lot of people who serve him behind him, and he doesn't have to do many things by himself, he doesn't seem to have any pursuit over the years, and he lives like a wasted person.
"Aren't you the prince of the Yuan Kingdom? How? You Yuan Kingdom has no soldiers and no generals, and you want to go to guard the frontier? What the hell are you doing with all this idleness? ”
It is not surprising that he knows his identity, because he also sees that his identity is by no means ordinary, and afterwards he asked the hidden guard to check, knowing that he is the prince of Duan, it is not difficult for him to find out who he is. Besides, this identity is just something outside the body, and there is nothing to hide.
"This is my ambition since I was a child, because my father-in-law manages the country very hard alone, I want to help him share his worries and help him guard the country, so that he can suffer less." Ouyang Qian picked up the wine jar and poured another bowl of wine, and touched the small bowl in Duan Yanche's hand, "Drink!" ”
"Ouyang Qian, as a prince, you don't have any shelf at all, and you are full of enthusiasm to run to the place where the bird doesn't, just to help your father-in-law share the heavy responsibility, why aren't you squeamish at all?"
"Three days with two whips and sticks, if you have my father-in-law, you won't be squeamish." Ouyang Qian smiled heartily at him, and Duan Yanche tilted his head and asked, "Your family rules are so strict?" Do you have a good relationship with the Emperor of Yuan? In Duan Yanche's concept, the children picked up are always inferior to their own children, this is for sure, after all, they are not their own flesh and blood, there is no blood relationship, where can they be close no matter how close they are?
"Okay, my father-in-law treats me like a new parent, and I am very grateful for my father's kindness."
"Two big men have so much to say? My dad and I don't have much to talk about, he's usually busy, he rarely has time to see me, and I don't want to see him that much, and I don't know what to say when I do. ”
"You are the crown prince of Duan State, you will inherit the unification in the future, and you must also have a snack in court politics, otherwise your father will abdicate in the future, how can you ensure that you can bring a better life to the people of Duan Kingdom? You can discuss state affairs with your father and emperor more often, and enhance your knowledge and decision-making ability. ”
The two of them drank and chatted about a jar of wine and drank it up, and the sky gradually got dark, the two were slightly drunk, Duan Yanche turned his face and said to him: "Last time I told my father about you, he really wants to see you, do you want to go to my Duan Wang's Mansion to talk?" ”
"Huh? I didn't prepare anything...... "Ouyang Qian purely came to play with him this time, and he didn't want to see the emperor at all.
"Do you think my Duan Wangfu lacks that little thing from you?" Duan Yanche raised his eyebrows. In the end, Ouyang Qian still went to the jade shop outside and picked out a valuable wrench and brought it with him.
Duan Wangfu
The two returned to the mansion together, and found that Duan Yi was waiting on the throne early, Duan Yanche bowed and said: "Father, the child and King Qian have not seen each other for a long time, and after a drink, he came to Duan Country thousands of miles away, and the child invited him to come to the house to sit. ”
Ouyang Qian bowed and arched his hand: "The younger generation has seen the emperor, and I respectfully wish the emperor the holy body is healthy." ”
Duan Yi stood up and beckoned to him, with a kind smile on his face: "Your Royal Highness King Qian, excuse me." ”
Ouyang Qian bowed down and saw his face, always feeling that he had seen him somewhere, and a vague figure appeared in his mind, but he never remembered it. He presented the gift box: "The younger generation came in a hurry, and did not prepare any gifts, and the little wrench is not a tribute, and I hope the emperor will accept it with a smile." ”
"His Royal Highness King Qian has a heart, please take a seat, you are a few years younger than Archer, I look at you so kindly, as if I saw Archer when he was a child, ......"
“…… Is it? ”
Duan Yi pulled Ouyang Qian to sit down, and shook his head incredulously: "It's really like ...... Do you know? You look a lot like an old friend of mine, but unfortunately, he has passed away......"
Ouyang Qian twisted his eyebrows, old friend? Could it be......
"His Royal Highness King Qian, were you born on the eighteenth day of the lunar month of Ding Younian?"
Ouyang Qian was vigilant in his heart, and replied cautiously: "This is the year that my father-in-law told me. ”
"My old friend, it was at that time that both husband and wife were killed." Duan Yi sighed as if he had endless regret.
"What does the emperor mean by this?"
"At that time, we were both young, and I was a good brother with your father-in-law and my old friend. It was a troubled time, and that winter, the snow was very heavy, and I only learned of my old friend's death a month after his death. Later, I heard that he and his wife had given birth to a child, and that they were killed in the early winter...... The boy is nowhere to be found......
Ouyang Qian's eyes were slightly stunned, he didn't know why Duan Yi told him about this past, he hadn't heard his father-in-law talk about such a brother, and he didn't know what this past had to do with him, he had never doubted his father-in-law's sincerity to him, and he didn't believe that his father-in-law would kill his brother and plunder his brother's children.
My father and the emperor of the Yuan Kingdom are old friends? Duan Yanche frowned slightly, why did his father never mention it to him? What does my father mean by that? Ouyang Qian is the son of his old friend? However, his biological parents were killed by Yuan Zhen, and he was also raised by Yuan Zhen as his own son? No matter how you listen to it, it's a bit provocative in it.
Duan Yi was caught in the sadness of Wei Xun's death at this time, and said to him with this teary-eyed and hazy expression: "I'm really embarrassed, I don't mean anything else when I say this, it's just that you look a lot like my old friend, so I can't help but feel a little sad." ”
"The emperor is serious, it is my honor that I can look like your friend." Ouyang Qian bowed slightly, and he didn't know what to say.
Ouyang Qian tossed and turned that night and couldn't sleep, Duan Yi's words kept recalling in his mind, so many years of his father-in-law's personality in his own eyes, great benevolence and righteousness, worthy of heaven and earth, how could he behave like this? He couldn't help beating his brain, wanting to sober himself up and stop thinking about these things, but he was getting more and more annoyed, so he couldn't help but get up and put on a coat and go to the yard for a walk.
As soon as he walked for a while, he caught a glimpse of a glimmer of light in his eyes, dodged, and a silver sword passed in front of him, and the man missed, and continued to attack him in anger. Ouyang Qian himself was annoyed, and made a few moves to subdue him, frowning and scolding: "Is it over?" What kind of hatred do you have with me, and you came to assassinate me in the middle of the night? ”
"You beast who recognizes a thief as your father, do you know what your last name is! My father and mother were killed by that dog thief, and I became a prince as if nothing happened! You deserve it too! The assassin's resentful scolding made Ouyang Qian even more annoyed, and he immediately scolded, "What nonsense are you talking about! ”
"Yuan Zhen, that dog thief, killed your parents, snatched you away from your mother's hands, he left your parents with no bones, and you couldn't even touch the grave to worship, and you even stayed by his side for eighteen years! Thou hast confessed the thief as a father for eighteen years. Your parents know that they won't forgive you! The assassin shouted at Ouyang Qian uncontrollably, "Your short-lived father and mother are really blessed to have such a son as you who doesn't know how to take revenge!" ”
"If you dare to say disrespectful words to my father-in-law again, I want your life!" Ouyang Qian pinched his neck with one hand and pressed it to the ground, and the assassin couldn't help but laugh proudly, "Your father-in-law? I'm afraid that only your good father-in-law knows best, you can continue to live like this, it depends on how you face your short-lived father and mother when you get to the underworld! A stream of black blood flowed, and the assassin gasped. Ouyang Qian hurriedly checked and found that he had swallowed poison beforehand.
He was very confused, and he said goodbye to Duan Yanche early the next morning, but Duan Yanche didn't have time to keep it. Duan Yi came out of the back of the house and looked at everything in front of him with a smile, for him, defeating Yuan Zhen was much more interesting than killing Yuan Zhen. Aren't all your thoughts on this kid? Okay, then I'll see what happens if you lose him.