Chapter 9: Commander of the Secret Guard
The car is sparkling and the horse is singing.
In the shaking car, Li Xuan was drowsy, and a voice suddenly came from outside the car: "Lang Jun, it's here!" ”
Li Xuanmeng's excitement made him sit up straight immediately, and he reached out to pick up the curtain.
Looking out, I only saw high gates on both sides, red walls and green tiles, and green willows hanging around.
Not far away, outside the weeping flower gatehouse, a group of servants surrounded a middle-aged man in his forties.
A middle-aged man with a tall figure, clear and sparse, wearing a black lion-patterned robe, looked at Li Xuan who lifted the curtain, looked happy, and reached out to help him get out of the car.
Li Xuan was startled, quickly jumped out of the car, stood on the ground, and bowed deeply: "Uncle! ”
"Okay, okay, no need to be polite." Zhao Gong stretched out his hand to hold Li Xuan's left arm, looked him up and down, and said with relief: "I haven't seen him for more than half a year, Da Lang has risen so much all of a sudden, he has really grown up!" ”
"Uncle, I'm seventeen years old this year!" Li Xuan was a little helpless, no matter how old you are, the elders treat you as a child.
"Alright, alright, knowing you've grown up, let's go in." Zhao Gong stretched out his hand and grabbed Li Xuan's arm, and took him all the way towards Chengyi Lang's mansion.
Li Xuan subconsciously looked towards the car, and saw that the housekeeper Zhao Zhong was still standing by the side of the car, and behind him were countless magnificent and high-ranking families.
This is Jingxingfang, located in the north of the Luohe River and the east of the imperial city, and is the residential area of the nobles and officials in the court.
Zhao Gong is the cousin of Li Xuan's mother, Ouyang Clan, and he does not have any real position in the court, only one of the false positions of Cheng Lang.
Cheng Yilang is a civil and prose official under the sixth grade, which is only half a grade lower than Liu Yuanlang, the son of the prime minister.
The buildings in the house are magnanimous, the gravel road is paved, the verandahs on all sides are connected, and the mountains and stones are embellished.
Stepping into the middle hall, rows of pear blossom tables and chairs are placed on both sides, and a pair of Yan Liben's pine crane longevity map hangs in the center of the top.
On one side, there is a big Hongzhou porcelain flower sac, and a bag full of white chrysanthemums is inserted; On one side, there are various books on the red sandalwood shelf.
Zhao Gong pressed Li Xuan to sit down on the main chair on the left side of the center, and then handed the black tea that the subordinate was serving to Li Xuan.
Then he sat down on the right and asked with concern, "Have you been to Zongzheng Temple?" ”
"I have already registered in Zongzheng Temple, and I have also handed the king sticker to the palace, and I will go to worship the prince tomorrow." Li Xuan said simply, paused slightly, and said hesitantly: "I didn't see Pei Siqing, it is said that he is on duty in the palace." ”
Yonghui Law: The royal family, the monks of the world, are all under the jurisdiction of Zongzheng Temple.
According to the regulations, after Li Xuan entered Luoyang, he went straight along the Heavenly Street, crossed the Tianjin Bridge into the imperial city, and arrived at the Zongzheng Temple in a very low-key manner.
It's a pity that although there are many officials busy inside and outside Zongzheng Temple, Li Xuan didn't see Pei Guangxiao, the secretary of Zongzheng Temple.
Pei Guangxiao, the current Zongzheng Siqing, was born in the Pei family in Hedong, and is the same clan as the crown princess and the Luoyang county lieutenant who was destroyed.
"Since Pei Guangxiao is in the palace, then you can only see Zongzheng Temple!" Zhao Gong shook his head and said with some amusement: "The Shaoqing of Zongzheng Temple is now receiving the kings from Longxi and Yizhou in Chang'an.
"Forget it, the situation is like this, and there is no way." Li Xuan shrugged indifferently, put down the tea soup in his hand, and asked with some curiosity: "What kind of tea is this?" ”
"This is Luoyang black tea, which has the effect of eliminating fatigue and cooling blood and purifying blood, I know that you have worked hard all the way from Nanchang, and you specially prepared it." Zhao Gong was a little proud, the price of this Luoyang black tea is high, even in Luoyang, only a few princes and nobles can get it.
"It's not Chang'an black tea!" Li Xuan looked up and looked around, and subconsciously asked, "Why don't you see your aunt and Qi'er, Huan'er." ”
The wife of Zhao Gong, the courtier, was born in the Cui clan of Qinghe, and had a son and a daughter with Zhao Gong, Zhao Qi and Zhao Huan.
"Your aunt took Qi'er and Huan'er to visit Princess Changle, and the princess has been unwell recently." Zhao Gong said casually.
Princess Changle, the seventh daughter of Emperor Gaozu, married Zhao Gui, the general of Zuo Qianniuwei.
Zhao Gui was born in Jingzhao Zhao, Zhao Gong, from Hebei Qinghe Zhao, but the Zhao family in the world is from Tianshui Zhao, and they are in the same vein.
Since Zhao Gong was given the title of Cheng Lang, he and Zhao Gui, the general of Zuo Qianniuwei who was born in the Jingzhao Zhao clan, went to continue the genealogy and became brothers.
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"I'm angry again." Li Xuan shook her head a little funny, Princess Changle is still Li Xuan's aunt according to her seniority.
When Emperor Taizong was there, he was extremely fond of Princess Changle, and after Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi ascended the throne, he also respected Princess Changle.
His daughter Zhao Qi married King Li Xian as his wife, and she was very favored.
It's just that in front of the emperor, it's good to say that Princess Changle can still restrain her temper, but after people, she has a great temper.
Especially in front of the Empress Wu.
Empress Wu couldn't help Princess Changle, so she often used Zhao Qi to vent her anger, but she choked Princess Changle enough.
"It's nothing more than a matter between my sister-in-law and my mother-in-law." Zhao Gong looked up at the window, and saw that the housekeeper Zhao Zhong was already standing at the door, he stretched out his hand and pressed on the chair, and stood up: "Let's go, I'll let people clean up the East Cross Courtyard for you, and you will live there during this time." ”
"Trouble Uncle!" Li Xuan stood up and walked towards the door together.
Although Li Xuan is a prince, he has not been in Luoyang for a long time, even in Chang'an, there is only one Peng Wang's mansion remaining, so this time when he came to Luoyang, he could only temporarily live in the mansion of his cousin Zhao Gong.
On the gate of the east courtyard, there is a plaque of Yiqing Courtyard, although it is not paid, but it is also known to be written by a famous family.
Entering the garden, the courtyard shelf is full of chrysanthemums, Yueji, white orchid, plain and indifferent, clear and exquisite, the right side is a rugged rockery, surrounded by green vines.
The eaves are exquisite, and in the round arched window, there is a plain and bright nave, on which a pear wood horizontal table is placed at the head, and two chairs are placed on both sides.
Hang a lonely mountain road map above, and the inscription below is Yu Chi Yi monk.
Two pretty maids of sixteen or seventeen years old stood aside.
Zhao Gong waved his hand to let them go down: "Originally, your aunt planned to decorate it more magnificently, but she didn't want to think about it, when it was now, if she didn't pay attention to it, she would be played by the imperial history, and she couldn't weigh it clearly." ”
"My aunt is also bothered." Li Xuan couldn't say anything more, and saw that the door was closed by a sensible maid, and then finally straightened up and asked, "Uncle, this time I was in a hurry to go back to Luoyang, what happened?" ”
Perhaps in the eyes of others, Li Xuan hurried back to Luoyang this time, quite a little scheming to curry favor with the emperor and queen.
After all, the crown prince Li Hong had just passed away, and anyone could see that a storm was coming.
Li Xuan rushed back to Luoyang so quickly, quite a bit of a drill camp to stand in line.
But in fact, this is not the case at all, even if Li Xuan got the special secret medicine of Longhu Mountain, even if he suddenly received the news of the death of the prince, he did not plan to rush back to Luoyang in such a hurry, after all, he didn't want to appear too much in the eyes of the queen of heaven now, it was too early.
It was only after he received Zhao Gong's secret letter that he decisively decided to rush back to Luoyang from Nanchang non-stop.
"Just ten days ago, the assassin of Wuzhou was attacked, the assassin Wang Fang was seriously injured, and the long history Li Ai died on the spot." Zhao Gong's words directly made Li Xuan stand still, and Zhao Gong said faintly: "According to the secret news, it was the Tianyin Sect in Muzhou, and it was done by the Holy Maiden of the Tianyin Sect you met outside Luoyang City. ”
At this moment, since Li Xuan entered Luoyang, a prompt entry that had not been displayed suddenly appeared, appearing above Zhao Gong's head.
[Zhao Gong, Cheng Lang, the son of the Empress Wu of the Queen, the commander of the royal secret guard, and the cousin of Li Xuan, the king of Nanchang. 】